Some companies may use this term to describe lactose-free or low-lactose products for those consumers with lactose intolerance. Or they may use it on products that are free of traditional dairy ingredients such as milk and cream but not free of milk derivatives such as caseinates or whey.airy-free. No regulatory definition exists for the term, dairy-free. That means that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has not established any regulations regarding use of that terminology on package labels.
7) Living things can reproduce. 8) Living things eventually die. Nonliving objects may show one, or even a few of these characteristics but they never show all of them... We can take these characteristics of life and simplify each...these will make up the 8 life functions. Scientists classify things as alive if they can carry out these 8 LIFE FUNCTIONS.
The question, What is life? has been one of many long discussions and the answer may depend upon your initial definitions. Life is cells. Cell theory consists of three basic points. All living things are made of cells. The cell is the smallest living thing that can perform all the functions of life. All cells must come from preexisting cells. Some definitions of life are: 1  The quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a non-living or dead body or purely chemical matter. 2  The state of a material complex or individual characterized by the capacity to perform certain functional activities including metabolism, growth, and reproduction.