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editThere must be an error either in the Wikipedia article or in the linked article describing Gánti's view. In his Az élet princípiuma the author states that there are 5 NECESSARY (obligatory) traits of life as well as 3 more traits which are facultative. So, the statement that "life should basically but necessarily have an autocatalytic subsystem consisting of metabolism and a replication process, and a membrane enclosing theses functions" is incorrect (or simply false).
According to the author himself, the obligatory features of live objects are:
- separation from the outside world (from the environment)
- metabolism
- internal stability, or homeostasis
- a subsystem of storage and processing information which is useful for the rest of the system
- regulation of processes inside the system
None of these features may be omitted in living organisms.
The additional, facultative features are:
- ability to grow and breed
- variability during replication (which is a condition for evolution)
- ability to die