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organism

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

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.

Term info

definition source

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

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

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000121, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl

term editor

GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch

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