Not the examples you’re thinking of, but viruses are arguably inanimate matter until they engage with living cells, and my food - which is of plant and animal origin but mostly not living when I’m eating it - becomes living matter in my body.
You seem to hold to a form of vitalism that insists biology includes something supernatural in addition to the component chemical and physical substances and processes. And to consider that assertion is sufficient evidence for this unobserved (and arguably in-principle unobservable) insistence.