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I might be completely wrong, having no formal education regarding this, but my understanding is there's no fundamental difference. Quarks, leptons and bosons form atoms, which in turn form molecules. Molecules have enough complexity to "do" various things, such as replication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication
There's also nothing fundamentally different about living and non-living tissue, or organic and inorganic matter, we just call all matter that is found in carbon-based lifeforms organic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_matter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound
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