GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Oxford English Dictionary defines an organism as “[an] individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form” This definition problematically excludes non-animal and plant multi-cellular life forms such as some fungi and protista.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Answer:Organism an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.