Question 4
Which of these is not one of the eight characteristics common to living organisms?
The right answer is the one marked above.
Photosynthesis. It is not a characteristic but one of the ways some organisms meet the characteristic called nutrition.
Not all living things photosynthesise — animals do not. But all living things show nutrition, respiration, excretion and cellular organization. What is on the list is nutrition, not one particular method of it.