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Medical Definition of organism. : an individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent : a living being.
Model organism. A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms. Model organisms are in vivo models and are widely used to research human disease when human experimentation would be unfeasible or unethical. This strategy is made possible by the common descent of all living organisms, and the conservation of metabolic and dev