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Molecular Life Sciences

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Molecular Life Sciences at EPFL

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: biology
University website: www.epfl.ch

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Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. The criteria can at times be ambiguous and may or may not define viruses, viroids, or potential synthetic life as "living". Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.
Life
Life is an urge of the Universe to understand itself.
N. S. Dhami, "A Phrase Steps Out of the Past".
Life
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.
John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, III. 887.
Life
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Dryden and Lee, Œdipus, Act IV, scene 1.
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