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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.
What the hell did your school define it as that is different from a traditional dictionary? ๐คจ
maybe it was life, not organism (is there a difference?): the seven characteristics https://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/80547/excerpt/9780521680547_excerpt.pdf
It's not.
Your school sucked.
You just did.
alright alright, no need to get uppity