The guillotine continued to be used long after the Revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person guillotined in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977.
A: Cell division has three purposes for an organism: reproduction, growth and maintenance. For single-celled organisms, this is their direct and only method of reproduction, and it serves no other purpose. For multicellular organisms, cell division is a step in reproduction and is necessary for growth and maintenance. Continue Reading
RECOMMENDED LESSONS: Living organisms are made up of cells The first characteristic of a living thing is that, they are made up of cells. A cell is the basic building block of all organisms.It is the smallest unit of organization in a living thing. They contain the organismâs hereditary information (DNA) and can make copies of themselves in a process called mitosis. cell is the basic building block of all organisms. It is the smallest unit of organization in a living thing. They contain the organismâs hereditary information (DNA) and can make copies of themselves in a process called mitosis.