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 criteria can at times be ambiguous and may or may not define viruses, viroids or potential artificial life as living. Biology is the primary science concerned with the study of life, although many other sciences are involved. The definition of life is controversial. The current definition is that organisms maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, and reproduce.