Early 19th-Century Scientists Believed That Living Organisms Differed from Nonliving

Early 19th-century scientists believed that living organisms differed from nonliving things as a result of possessing a "life force" that could create organic molecules from inorganic matter. The term given to this belief is

A) organic synthesis.
B) vitalism.
C) mechanism.
D) organic evolution.
E) inorganic synthesis.