Which of the five criteria has the most impact on all living organisms?
Five Criteria of Life:
(a) All living things are made of cells;
(b) All living things have genetic material;
(c) All living things must maintain homeostasis (balance);
(d) All living things use energy;
(e) All living things have the ability to reproduce.

Aresearcher lyses a cell that contains nucleic acid molecules and capsomeres of tobacco mosaic virus (tmv). the cell contents are left in a covered test tube overnight. the next day this mixture is sprayed on tobacco plants. we expect that the plants would ) develop some but not all of the symptoms of the tmv infectionb) develop the typical symptoms of tmv infectionc) not show any disease symptomsd) become infected, but the sap from these plants would be unable to infect other plants