AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An organism is an individual living thing. It is easy to recognize a living thing, but not so easy to define it. Animals and plants are organisms, obviously. Organisms are a biotic, or living, part of the environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Living organism: An organism is considered as living when it performs the different life processes in one form of another. The occurrence of life processes can differentiate between living organisms and non-living objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most biologists implicitly define an individual organism as “one genome in one body.” This definition is based on physiological and genetic criteria, but it is problematic for colonial organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -An individual is one organism and is also one type of organism (e.g., human, cat, moose, palm tree, gray whale, tapeworm, or cow in our example). The type of organism is referred to as the species.

Detailed explanation-5: -Living things that are made up of many cells are called organisms.