| In nonhuman terms, others might include other living species and the major nonliving components of the Earth. |
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| Life depends upon the nonliving world for habitat, as well as energy and materials. |
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| Another theory was that fossils were nonliving imitations of living things, directly created by God. |
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| A few types of bacteria also manufacture food from nonliving substances and therefore serve as producers in some cave communities. |
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| The Gaia hypothesis was later refined to emphasize that the environment is regulated through feedback between living and nonliving systems. |
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| Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on nonliving and living systems have been the object of a number of important research efforts. |
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| Reason is what distinguishes us from plants, nonhuman animals, and nonliving things, and so our purpose must involve its fruitful cultivation. |
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| Design and construction professionals call the nonliving components of any landscape the hardscape. |
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| Molecular machines will bridge the gap between living matter and nonliving matter, making the border between life and death much fuzzier. |
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| Life on earth is a web of relationships in which plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even nonliving entities mutually support each other. |
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| Chemical toxins differ from biological weapons in that they are nonliving pathogens and require direct infection and contact with the victim. |
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| The Primordial Essence that is our individual lives extends throughout the limitless universe and permeates all things, living and nonliving. |
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| All the living and nonliving elements present in nature follow some pattern. |
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| Poised in the twilight zone between the living and the nonliving, a virus is just a short strand of DNA or RNA coiled tightly inside a shell made of protein molecules. |
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| To a philosopher, is the human brain no different from a nonliving gizmo like a computer or a light switch? |
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| Saprotroph, also called saprophyte, saprobe, or detritivore, organism that feeds on nonliving organic matter known as detritus. |
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| Inorganic mulches are materials that come from nonliving sources. |
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| These explanations proceed by asserting that the most complex nonliving molecules will reproduce more efficiently than less complex nonliving molecules. |
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| A variety of living and nonliving skin substitutes are already available. |
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| Having discovered that the usual agents of fermentation, such as yeasts and bacteria, were alive, he denied the possibility of fermentation by nonliving substances. |
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| A dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit. |
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| Only about 15 percent of kidney transplants are done with living donors, the other recipients must wait about five years before receiving a kidney from a nonliving donor. |
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| Scientists will also look carefully at the duration of the immune response it induces, believed to be shortlived with nonliving vaccines. |
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| Support of the body is achieved in many protozoans by a simple stiff, translucent, nonliving envelope called a pellicle. |
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| Earth is composed of living and nonliving elements interacting in complex webs of ecological relationships which occur at multiple levels. |
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| Ecosystem: An interactive system of biological communities, their nonliving components, and their associated activities. |
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| Orchids have a multiple-layered epidermis called a velamen, which consists of nonliving compact cells with lignified strips of secondary walls. |
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| The basic ecological unit, composed of living and nonliving elements interacting in an aqueous milieu. |
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| Viruses are tiny, nonliving particles that invade and then reproduce inside of living cells. |
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| Spontaneous generation, also called abiogenesis, the hypothetical process by which living organisms develop from nonliving matter, must be rejected. |
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| Disturbances may be generated by abiotic, or nonliving, forces such as weather and wildfires, or they may occur as a result of biotic, or living, forces such as disease and invasions of exotic species. |
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| Viruses are sometimes classified as microbes, but this report excludes them because they are nonliving. |
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| Nature accomplishes this by adding information to matter, and organizes chemical system of nonliving components into living, biological systems. |
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| Autecology, also called Species Ecology, the study of the interactions of an individual organism or a single species with the living and nonliving factors of its environment. |
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| Gaia hypothesis, model of the Earth in which its living and nonliving parts are viewed as a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. |
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| The pigments of animals are located in nonliving skin derivatives such as hair in mammals, feathers in birds, scales in turtles and tortoises, and cuticles and shells in many invertebrates. |
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| Schools choose the test subjects from a state list that includes items like number awareness, basic geometry and distinguishing living from nonliving things. |
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| For another, DTP's scope as an antigen vehicle is limited by the fact that only nonliving antigens, like DTP's three component antigens, can be hooked onto it. |
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| Understanding Earth as a complex set of interacting living and nonliving elements is fundamental to knowing that human societies depend on diverse small and large ecosystems for food, water, and all other resources. |
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| Research involving humans may also include the collection of information from or about humans, such as through surveys, and from records of nonliving humans that are not in the public domain. |
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| To date, however, to unravel the intricate mechanisms that govern neurochemical interactions researchers have largely been limited to examining individual molecules extracted and preserved in a nonliving state. |
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| Physical Science Interested in the systematic investigation of various aspects of nonliving nature, for example, chemistry, physics, geology or astronomy. |
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| Natural lakes provide a microcosm of living and nonliving elements that are relatively independent of their surrounding environments. |
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| We should define life in the broadest terms so that when we encounter an entity on another planet or moon we will know whether to classify it as alive or nonliving. |
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| Saprobes grow on nonliving plant parts like dead leaves and wood. |
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