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Accommodating Ontologies to Biological Reality—Top-Level Categories of Cumulative-Constitutively Organized Material Entities

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Constitutive Granularity.

A constitutive granularity of molecules, cells and organs of a multicellular organism. It is characteristic of constitutive granularities that all objects belonging to one level of granularity are parts of objects of the next coarser level of granularity: all molecules are part of cells, all cells part of organs, and all organs part of multicellular organisms. Moreover, the sum of all objects of one level of a constitutive granularity yields the maximal object, which is in this case a multicellular organism.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030004.g001