<Li> Adaptation: the ability to change over time in response to the environment . This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism's heredity, diet, and external factors . </Li> <Li> Response to stimuli: a response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism to external chemicals, to complex reactions involving all the senses of multicellular organisms . A response is often expressed by motion; for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun (phototropism), and chemotaxis . </Li> <Li> Reproduction: the ability to produce new individual organisms, either asexually from a single parent organism or sexually from two parent organisms . </Li> <Li> Interaction between organisms . the processes by which an organism has an observable effect on another organism of the same or different species . </Li>

Where do the chemical processes of the organism take place