| def: A living (or once living) entity that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently defprov: www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ 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 |
| •owl:Thing |
| •entity |
| •continuant |
| •independent_continuant |
| •object |
| •biomaterial_entity |
| •organism |
| biomaterial_entity |
| obi:has_role SOME investigation_object_role |
| obi:has_role_which_can_only_be_played_by_biomaterial_entity SOME specimen_role |