Abiogenesis is the study of how the first life forms grew out of non-living matter.

Until the early 19th century many people believed in the regular spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter.

By the middle of the 19th century, Pasteur and other scientists had shown that living organisms did not arise spontaneously from non-living matter.

Shardblades are powerful swords which have the ability to cut through any non-living matter with ease.

It is this capacity of organisms to correct imbalances that distinguishes them from non-living matter.

For many centuries, people believed in spontaneous generation, or the ability of life to generate from non-living matter.

This approach is also valid for all non-living matter, after having identified one or more correct characteristics.

Chytrids get their energy mostly from non-living organic matter.

The creation of life from non-living matter for example, would be biorobotics.

A saprophyte or saprotroph is an organism which gets its energy from non-living organic matter.