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organism

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100026


Term info

database cross reference
  • SNOMEDCT:410607006
  • NIFSTD:birnlex_376
  • MO:508
  • NCIt:C14250
EFO URI

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0000634

IAO 0000111

organism

IAO 0000119

WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism

definition

A material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs. E.g Drosophila melanogaster, A material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs.

editor note

10/21/09: This is a placeholder term, that should ideally be imported from the NCBI taxonomy, but the high level hierarchy there does not suit our needs (includes plasmids and 'other organisms'), 13-02-2009: OBI doesn't take position as to when an organism starts or ends being an organism - e.g. sperm, foetus. This issue is outside the scope of OBI.

example of usage

fungus, plant, animal, virus, Drosophila melanogaster

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

term editor

GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch, James Malone, Tomasz Adamusiak, Jie Zheng

Term relations

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