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In fact, Whirlpool sells more of its appliances under the "Kenmore" name than under its own "Whirlpool" brand. Other highly speculative and somewhat doubtful places for present or past life include the atmosphere of Venus, Titan cryovolcanoes, or even Enceladus. Whirlpool also manufactures under the Kenmore label, (manufactured for Sears, Roebuck and Company). Jupiter's moons are also considered good candidates for extraterrestrial life, especially Europa, which seems to possess oceans of liquid water.
. See Life on Mars for further discussion. The JCWP was part of a statewide initiative to provide affordable homes to families in Benton Harbor, Detroit and various other Michigan communities. Recent evidence from the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity supports the theory that Mars once had surface water.

In Benton Harbor, 24 new homes were built through Harbor Habitat for Humanity. Searches for extraterrestrial life are currently focusing on planets and moons believed to possess liquid water, at present or in the past. Whirlpool also sponsored many homes in the Jimmy Carter Work Project in the summer of 2005. Today, the closest that scientists have come to finding extraterrestrial life is fossil evidence of possible bacterial life on Mars (via the ALH84001 meteorite). Whirlpool donates a clothes washing machine, clothes dryer, refrigerator, and stove to every Habitat for Humanity house. There have been a number of claims of the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe, but none of these have yet survived scientific scrutiny. Whirlpool Corporation is a principal supporter of Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization dedicated to building low-cost, affordable housing. The question of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe remains open, but analyses such as the Drake equation have been used to estimate the probability of such life existing.

Whirlpool received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report. At this time, Earth is the only planet in the universe known by humans to support life. . Main articles: Extraterrestrial life, Astrobiology. The machines are produced for sale primarily in North America and Australia. Many models fall into the "genes-first" category or the "metabolism-first" category, but a recent trend is the emergence of hybrid models that do not fit into either of these categories. The washing machine plant produces about 20,000 top-loading washing machines per day, or a total of about 4.8 million per year. There are many different hypotheses regarding the path that might have been taken from simple organic molecules to protocells and metabolism.

Whirlpool's seminal product was the clothes washing machine, which in the United States is today manufactured in Clyde, Ohio. There is no truly "standard" model of the origin of life, but most currently accepted scientific models build in one way or another on the following discoveries, which are listed roughly in order of postulated emergence:. In North America, Whirlpool Corporation is headquartered in Benton Harbor, Michigan and manufacturers appliances in the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee. Main article: Origin of life. Whirlpool has about 68,000 employess worldwide and manufactures appliances under a variety of brand names listed below. Another exception might be the software code of certain forms of computer viruses and programs created through genetic programming, but whether computer programs can be alive even by this definition is still a matter of some contention. Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the largest United States home appliance maker (second-largest worldwide, after Sweden's AB Electrolux). This argument would, however, include viruses, which have been observed to evolve.

Speed Queen Mexico (but not Speed Queen in the United States). In all known life forms (assuming prions are not counted as such), the genetic material is primarily DNA or the related molecule, RNA. Roper (appliances). The study of this form of heritability is called genetics. Polar (appliances). Descent with modification is sufficient by itself to allow evolution, assuming that the variations in the offspring allow for differential survival. Laden (France). A useful characteristic upon which to base a definition of life is that of descent with modification: the ability of a life form to produce offspring that are like its parent or parents, but with the possibility of some variation due to chance.

KitchenAid. Variations of this definition include:. KIC (in South Africa). fire). Inglis (appliances) (now Whirlpool Canada). These objects are not to be confused with dissipative structures (e.g. Gladiator GarageWorks. The systemic definition is that living things are self-organizing and autopoietic (self-producing).

Estate (appliances). Generally, all six characteristics are required for a population to be considered a lifeform. Consul (appliances). Still, some would not call these entities alive. Brastemp. Viruses reproduce, flames grow, some software programs mutate and evolve, future software programs will probably evince (even high-order) behavior, machines move, and some form of proto-life consisting of metabolizing cells without the ability to reproduce presumably existed. Bauknecht. However, most forms of life rely on foods produced by other species, or at least the specific chemistry of the Earth.

Whirlpool. For similar reasons, viruses and aberrant prion proteins are often considered replicators rather than forms of life: they cannot reproduce without very specialised substrates such as host cells or proteins, respectively. It is also worth noting that non-reproducing individuals may still help the spread of their genes through such mechanisms as kin selection. One could say that the property of life is inherited; hence, sterile hybrid species such as the mule are considered life although not themselves capable of reproduction. It is important to note that life is a definition that applies at the level of species, so even though many individuals of any given species do not reproduce, possibly because they belong to specialised sterile castes (such as ant workers), these are still considered forms of life.

Some assert that this must be the case for all possible forms of life throughout the universe; others describe this position as 'carbon chauvinism'. All life on Earth is based on the chemistry of carbon compounds. Although there is no universal agreement on the definition of life, the generally accepted biological manifestations are that life exhibits the following phenomena:. How can one tell when an entity is alive? It would be relatively straightforward to offer a practical set of guidelines if one's only concern were life on Earth as we know it (see biosphere), but as soon as one considers questions about life's origins on Earth, or the possibility of extraterrestrial life, or the concept of artificial life, it becomes clear that the question is fundamentally difficult and comparable in many respects to the problem of defining intelligence.

. Life is a multi-faceted concept that may refer to the ongoing process of which living things are a part; the period between fertilisation (in sexual reproduction) or mitosis and splitting from the parent (in asexual organisms), and death. Procedures for producing random RNA molecules can produce ribozymes, which are able to produce more of themselves under very specific conditions. Phospholipids spontaneously form lipid bilayers, the basic structure of a cell membrane.

This was demonstrated in the Urey-Miller experiment. Plausible pre-biotic conditions result in the creation of the basic small molecules of life. Stuart Kauffman's definition of life as an autonomous agent or a multi-agent system capable of reproducing itself or themselves, and of completing at least one thermodynamic work cycle. This is, however, a description rather than a definition of life, meaning it excludes other possible forms of life.

Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana's definition of life as an autopoietic (self-producing), water based, lipid-protein bound, carbon metabolic, nucleic acid replicated, protein readout system. Usually the term is applied to the production of a new individual (either asexually, from a single parent organism, or sexually, from two differing parent organisms), although strictly speaking it also describes the production of new cells in the process of growth. Reproduction - The division of one cell to form two new cells is reproduction. A response is often expressed by motion: the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun or an animal chasing its prey.

Plants also respond to stimuli, but usually in ways very different from animals. Response to stimuli - A response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism when touched to complex reactions involving all the senses of higher animals. It is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the individual's heredity. Adaptation - Adaptation is the accommodation of a living organism to its environment.

A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter. Growth - Growth results from a higher rate of synthesis than catalysis. Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life. Metabolism - Metabolism produces energy by converting nonliving material into cellular components (synthesis) and decomposing organic matter (catalysis).

Organization - Living things are comprised of one or more cells, which are the basic units of life.