Organism
Hans Cools, MD, Agfa Healthcare/Belgium
Until 2010: Pieterjan De Potter, Pedro Debevere, Ghent University - IBBT/ELIS - Multimedia Lab/Belgium
Agfa Healthcare/Belgium
Formal general description of organism.
OWL Full
organism
Something that lives.
Superclass can be organism in a more general way: any complex thing having properties and functions determined not only by the properties of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.
life
The action of being alive.
individual life
Life of an organism after birth.
alive
State of being capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole.
Up till now no satisfying definition.
mortal
State of having a limited lifetime.
death
Finding of the remains of an organism.
dead
State of being not alive anymore.
cause of death
Action causing death.
development state
Any state of development.
immature
State of being biologically not full-grown.
mature
State of being biologically full-grown.
A criterium can be: capable of reproduction.
mature organism
Organism being mature.
immature organism
Organism being immature.
gravidity
Any state of gravidity.
pregnant
State of an organism of having offspring developing in its body.
nonpregnant
State of an organism of not having offspring developing in its body.
pregnant organism
Organism being pregnant.
biological ascendant
Living ascendant of any kind.
Organism that is an earlier form of another organism.
biological parent
First grade ascendant of an organism.
Organism that produces another.
biological mother
Female biological parent.
biological father
Male biological parent.
biological descendant
Living descendant of any kind.
Organism deriving from an earlier form.
biological child
First grade living descendant of any kind.
Organism that is produced by another.
biological offspring
Children of the same biological parent(s).
eukaryote
Organism with a cellular nucleus.
unbranched bioPolymer
Polymer of an organism without branch.
genome
All hereditary information of an organism coded in nucleotide chains.
deoxyribonucleic acid
Nucleic acid containing genetic instructions for development and functioning of organisms, except RNA viruses.
karyotyping
Classifying chromosomes from a nucleus of a eukaryotic cell according to number, size, shape, banding pattern, placement of centromere or other characteristics.
karyotype
Classification of chromosomes from a nucleus of a eukaryotic cell according to the number, size, shape, banding pattern, placement of centromere or other characteristics.
sequencing
Determining a primary structure or sequence of an unbranched biopolymer of an organism.
sequence
Determination of a primary structure or sequence of an unbranched biopolymer of an organism.
DNA sequencing
Determining a nucleotide order of DNA of an organism.
DNA sequence
Determination of a nucleotide order of DNA of an organism.
Specifying a life process of an organism.
Specifying the state of development of an individual organism.
Specifying the gravidity of an organism.
Specifying the beginning of a life of an organism as individual.
End of a delivery.
has birth date time
Specifying a snapshot event's date and time an organism is born on.
has birth date
Specifying a date an organism is born on.
has birth time
Specifying a snapshot event's time of a day an organism is born on.
Specifying the endpoint in time of a life of an organism.
has death date time
Specifying a snapshot event's date and time an organism died on.
has death date
Specifying a snapshot event's date an organism died on.
has death time
Specifying the time of a day an organism died.
Specifying a cause of death of an organism.
Specifying the first grade ascendent of an organism or group of organisms.
Specifying the first grade female ascendent of an organism.
Specifying the first grade male ascendent of an organism.
Specifying the first grade descendant of an organism or group of organisms.
Specifying the taxonomic identity of an organism as defined in uniprot taxonomy.
has sequence
Specifying a sequence of an organism.
sequence of
Specifying an organism's specimen having a sequence.
has karyotype
Specifying a karyotype of a eukaryote.
has DNA Sequence
Specifying a DNA sequence of an organism.