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What is an organism?

What is an organism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  2. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
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During its ontogenetic growth, an organism would experience various developmental events.
An organism is considered metameric when its body is mostly formed of serially repeated anatomical units called metameres.
In this way, the global ubiquitous computer is much more like a living organism than the Turing machine.
As a description of a function in an organism the word is perfectly serviceable.
That's in contrast to the nuclear energy and genetically modified organism industries, which are hobbled by bad public relations, she adds.
The organism may have extended a filtering organ out of the single opening as a modern serpulid does from its tube.

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