Preferred Name

Synonyms

species

Definitions

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. 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

ID

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

branch_class

true

database_cross_reference

NIFSTD:birnlex_376

SNOMEDCT:410607006

NCIt:C14250

MO:508

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.

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.

EFO_URI

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

example of usage

Drosophila melanogaster

plant

animal

fungus

virus

has curation status

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

has_exact_synonym

species

IAO_0000111

organism

IAO_0000119

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

label

organism

organism

prefixIRI

OBI:0100026

term editor

Tomasz Adamusiak

James Malone

GROUP: OBI Biomaterial Branch

Jie Zheng

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000040

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