Universal Life Competency- Ability Framework and Equation: A Conceptual Systems-Biology Model

Living organisms across biological taxa—including humans, animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, and microorganisms—can be conceptualized as open thermodynamic systems that sustain internal order through continuous exchange of matter and energy with their environments. While extensive work in physiology, ecology, and systems biology has investigated metabolic scaling, resource assimilation, and energy budgets, few integrative frameworks exist for synthesizing absorption processes, physiological losses, organismal mass, and biochemical competency into a unified comparative model that applies across taxa. This paper presents the Universal Life Competency–Ability Framework, a conceptual systems-biology model that…