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OCR: One can define life to be an ordered system that can sustain itself against the tendency to disorder and can reproduce itself that is, it can make similar, but independent ordered systems To op these things the system must convert energy in some ordered form, like food sunlight or electric power, into disorderedenergyin the formof heat in this way the system can satisfythe requirement that the total amount of disorder increases while at the same time increasing the order in itself and its offspring podd satisfy