Organism Refers to any living plant, animal, bacteria, fungus, virus, etc. Also (e.g., in certain international treaties such as the Convention on Biological Diversity), this term includes things (e.g., seeds, spores, eggs) possessing the potential to become plants, animals, fungi, etc. BIOLOGY,  BACTERIA,  FUNGUS,  VIRUS,  CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD)

The term "ORGANISM" also appears in the definition(s) of the following term(s): Acclimatization  Aging  Anaerobe  Antibiosis  Autotroph  Auxotroph  Cell  Citrate Synthase Gene  Clone (an organism)  Culture  Diplophase  Embryology  Eucaryote  Facultative Anaerobe  Functional Genomics  Gene Silencing  Genetic Engineering  Genetic Marker  Genomics  Glycocalyx  Habitat  Haplophase  Heterologous Proteins  Heterotroph  Heterozygote  Homozygote  Host Vector (HV) System  Immunogen  Interferons  Marker (genetic marker)  Mesophile  Microaerophile  Morphology  Mutant  Mutation  Nitric Oxide  Nutraceuticals  Outcrossing  Passive Immunity  Pathogen  Phenotype  Phylogenetic Constraint  Polyhydroxylbutylate (PHB)  Polymorphism (genetic)  Protozoa  Psychrophile  Site-Directed Mutagenesis (SDM)  Species  SRB (sulfate reducing bacterium)  Thermoduric  Thermophile  Transgenic  Triploid  Tropism  Tumor-Suppressor Genes  Wild Type  Xenotransplant    PARP  Naked Gene    Chimera  Chimeraplasty  DNA Methylation  SNP Map  Microorganism  Metabolic Engineering  Model Organism  Cytoplasmic DNA  Gene Function Analysis  Gene Repair (natural)  Phenomics  Epigenetic  Tetraploid  Annotation (Bioinformatics)  Negative Control  Knockin  Knockout  Ortholog  Phylogenetic Profiling  RNA Interference (RNAi)  Cold-shock Protein  Cre-Lox System  Innate Immune Response  Motor Proteins  PEGylation  Phytophthora  In/Dels  Hydrilla verticillata  Reprogramming  Epigenetic Therapy  DNA-binding Proteins  Stress Hormones

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