The answer to this would be D: physical components of the environment, such as rocks and sand. The word "biotic" mean all the living organisms within an ecosystem such as plants and animals.
Reticulum is the only one I know of that contain lysosmes.
Answer: Option (C)
Explanation: The rocks at the continental crust are present since a long time, and the oldest rocks so far encountered from the continental crust is approximately 4.4 billion years old.
This has been determined by the Uranium-Lead dating method (Ur₂₃₈-Pb₂₀₆).
Oceanic rocks are estimated to be of very recent age i.e about only 180 million years old.
I believe it would be number 4