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so_bold_of_you t1_jdr5vdr wrote

Difference between passive and active. An environment is passive in the sense that the resources are there, but unless an active agent makes use of them, resources stay in their raw forms.

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so_bold_of_you t1_jdp4mh6 wrote

No. The mother’s body is the environment in which it is made, but the cells themselves are doing the dividing/growing. The cells would do the same thing in a petri dish, too.

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