Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
organism
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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
Label
organism
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.
editor preferred term
organism
example of usage
fungus, plant, animal, virus
has curation status
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122
term editor
GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch
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