Article A Thermodynamic Description of Life and Death in Biosystems

One of the challenges of biology has been the definition of life. Most of our attempts on defining ‘life ’ have finished in a catalogue of properties which, more or less, describe only the living beings ’ functions, not life. Our problem begins when we lose the notion of reality provided by nature and go off the point with personal ideas. In this article, the operational definition of life and a meaning of death, based on empirical and observational data, will be expanded on, utilizing concepts from thermodynamics