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- Dictionaryor·gan·ism/ˈôrɡəˌniz(ə)m/
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- 1. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form: "fish and other organisms have been destroyed over large areas of the creek" Similar
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An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual. Such a definition raises more problems than it solves, not least because the concept of an individual is also difficult. Many criteria, few of them widely accepted, have been proposed to define what an organism is. Among the most common is that an organism has autonomous reproduction, growth, and me... Wikipedia