What is "non-living matter"? How is it different from "living" matter?

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Definitions First you have to define "living". Harder than it looks. Shine up a piece of iron and watch it for a few days.It will start to rust and the rust will SPREAD.

So is rust living? Drop a few crystals into a solution of sodium silicate and the crystals will grow long tendrils. Are these crystals living?

Stir up some vegetable oil and water and you'll have millions of tiny self-contained bubbles of oil. Over time the bubbles will form an outer membrane. Are these bubbles living?

----------------- You see there is no hard line between "living" and "non-living". There are things that grow, multiply and divide, move, use chemical reactions, but have no DNA. Then there are things like viruses that have DNA, but nothing else.

There is a complete specturm of things from rocks, with none of the attributes of living things, to Angelina Jolie, with all of them. Certainly having DNA or RNA is a big step up, but just one step..

The's things like rocks, which don't reproduce and don't interact with their environment -- they're non-living. Then there’s things like people, who do reproduce and do affect / use their environment -- they’re living. And in between is a grey area -- things that have some properties of living things and some properties of non-living things.

Bacteria clearly are living. Crystals clearly are non-living. What about viruses and plasmids?

So it’s a continuum, not a binary distinction, and your decision about any particular item depends a lot on exactly what your definition of life is and how cleqarly you can express it.

I'm not sure, but if I remember my chemistry class right: it needs to contain carbon to be organic or living. As I said I am NOT sure of this answer.

Matter Well...iffin hit be a Bose/Einstein condensate you can bet yur bippy...hit ain't alive. The other answer is...iffin hit don be alive hit ain't living matter, thet woud be yur "non-living matter" right enough. Living matter is you or a Copepod..

Ah, the difference between organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. That difference is why "evolution" cannot produce life. There is NO mechanism available for going from inorganic chemistry (minerals, elements, carbon dioxide, etc.) to organic chemistry (organized elements such as DNA and amino acids.

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