How To Use Nonliving In A Sentence
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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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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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Lovelock: There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter.
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The experiments in this study showed that the directions of the change of the reflected light intensity caused by biological systems and heated nonliving objects are always opposite.
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One common question is: What are the properties that distinguish living things from nonliving things?
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Design and construction professionals call the nonliving components of any landscape the hardscape.
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At the same time, the differ - ence between living and nonliving things was less marked, because the ancients tended to assume that all matter possesses power and mobility and is quasi - alive (the assumption that the material world is alive is known as “hylozoism”).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Another theory was that fossils were nonliving imitations of living things, directly created by God.
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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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It's believed to be caused by nonliving proteins called prions, which accumulate in lymphatic and nerve tissue and literally create holes in the victim's brain (hence the "sponge" of "spongiform").
Cause for Alarm?
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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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Reproduction - the process by which organisms make more organisms like themselves - is one of the things that sets living things apart from nonliving things.
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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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A nonliving material, called the intercellular matrix, fills the spaces between the cells.
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All the living and nonliving elements present in nature follow some pattern.
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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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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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Ktesibios's regula was the first nonliving object to self - regulate, self - govern, and self - control.
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Life depends upon the nonliving world for habitat, as well as energy and materials.
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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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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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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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Inorganic mulches are materials that come from nonliving sources.
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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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This remarkable ability is the basis of all the other differences that distinguish the living nonliving.
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Some artificial materials are degradable - slowly - by nonliving agents.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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Sponges subsist on macroscopic detritus material, but also consume cellular material, bacteria, and nonliving particles so small they cannot be resolved with a light microscope.
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A variety of living and nonliving skin substitutes are already available.
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In nonhuman terms, others might include other living species and the major nonliving components of the Earth.
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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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This is partly derived from the African cosmogonic worldview, which presumes a symbiotic relationship between the living and nonliving and between humans and non-humans in the universe.
