These cycles include both the living biosphere and the nonliving lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. These fungi can be saprotrophic or necrotrophic, colonizing nonliving heartwood or living roots. However, these nonliving vaccines did provide protection against the homologous organism. PCT also applies to nonliving autonomic systems. The damage caused by these various living and nonliving agents can appear very similar. Viability assays can lead to more findings than the difference of living versus nonliving. Stahl's focus was on the distinction between the living and nonliving. Grant me that I not meet the death from any entity, living or nonliving. Deposition of transparent, nonliving, material eased the need for nutrient supply and waste removal. Nonliving vaccines provided no protection against the heterologous organism. His views were that nonliving things are stable throughout time and did not rapidly change. Nonliving material objects range in complexity from subatomic particles to large organic molecules.