organism
living being or physical living system composed of organic matter
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Summary
organism is a type of physical object[1]. organism draws 21,988 Wikipedia views per month (type of physical object category, ranking #90 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: agentive physical object[3], biological component[4], material anatomical entity[5]
- Part of: population[6], group of living things[7], Biota[8]
- Commons category: Organisms[9]
- Said to be the same as: creature[10]
- Has part(s): cell[11], organ system[12], biological component[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Organisms[14], Category:Individual organisms[15], Category:Organism[16]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20]
- Partially coincident with: body[21]
- Has characteristic: species distribution[22], biological life cycle[23], taxon[24], homeostasis[25], trophic level[26], scientific name[27], feeding behavior[28], primary nutritional group[29], mode of biological reproduction[30], organism trait[31], date of birth[32]
- Manifestation of: life[33], living system[34], genome[35]
- Equivalent class: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001[36], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022[37], http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing[38], https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#EntityThatCanBeAlive[39], https://w3id.org/semanticarts/ns/ontology/gist/LivingThing[40], http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#organism__being-eng-3.0-00004475-n[41], http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Organism[42]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C14250[43]
- Different from: Organism[44], corpse[45], human body[46]
- Properties for this type: P10241[47], P569[48]
- Uses: energy[49], food[50], water[51], oxygen[52], fertilizer[53]
- Has list: list of life forms[54]
- Studied by: biology[55], life sciences[56]
- Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[57]
- Narrower external class: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#SCR_Organism[58]
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Influence
Things named for organism include cyborg[59], a blend word[60].
Why It Matters
organism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[61] organism is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[62]
Entities named for organism include cyborg[59], a blend word[60].