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A quick google search https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000524 "As a group, parasites are extraordinarily diverse ... Underlying this diversity is evolution."
I understand the definition of organism is notoriously problematic. Under the definition given in schools, fire is an organism.
I'm not stating a viewpoint (I'm not qualified), but I think it's much more complex than this.
It's not.
Your school sucked.
You just did.
alright alright, no need to get uppity
What the hell did your school define it as that is different from a traditional dictionary? 🤨
maybe it was life, not organism (is there a difference?): the seven characteristics https://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/80547/excerpt/9780521680547_excerpt.pdf