]> _biomaterial(deprecated) material entity Melanie Courtot examples: Archaea, Bacteria,Eukaryota,Viroids, Viruses rem1: OBI should link to an external resource (e.g. NCBI Taxonomy) Altdef: an organism is a biomaterial entity which is self-contained MC: virus and viroid are not organisms organism 'has_role_which_can_only_be_played_by_biomaterial_entity' some specimen_role, organism 'has_role' some investigation_object_role in obi before split (LF 040907). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organism animal fungus micro-organism plant organism An organism is biomaterial entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant or micro-organism, that is capable of reproduction, growth and maintenance. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs. organism entity continuant independent_continuant definition editor editor note definition source curation status example of usage preferred term definition relates a class to a property where instances of the class make sense as subjects of the property relates a class to a property where instances of the class make sense as objects of the property relates a class to a property where some instances of the class may make sense as subjects of the property relates a class to a property where some instances of the class may make sense as objects of the property has_input is_input_of has_quality has_output outputs_data is_manufactured_by has_function is_reagent_in utilizes_reagent is_instrument_for is_output_of utilizes_instrument is_proxy_for inputs_data has_role adjacent_to agent_in contained_in contains derived_into derives_from has_agent has_integral_part has_part has_participant has_proper_part integral_part_of located_in location_of part_of participates_in proper_part_of relationship transformation_of metadata incomplete