A student places a healthy potted plant and a plastic straw in a closet for two weeks. After two weeks, the student observes that the plant is wilted and brown, while the plastic straw remains the same. The student classifies the plant as living and the plastic straw as nonliving.
What criteria does the student use to classify the plant as living rather than nonliving?
The plant needs energy from sunlight to make food for survival.
The plant produces pollen for reproduction of its species.
The plant generates sugars that are consumed as food by other organisms.
The plant produces offspring with characteristics similar to the parent plant