A fire is similar to a living thing in that it burns compounds and produces waste.
While fire does not have cells or DNA in the biological sense, it exhibits some characteristics that can be likened to living organisms, such as consuming fuel (burning compounds) and producing byproducts (waste such as smoke, heat, and gases) during the combustion process. The other options, such as being made up of cells or passing on DNA, do not apply to fire, as it is a chemical reaction rather than a biological entity.