Vocabulary
BODC parameter semantic model biological entity subcomponent terms
| URI | http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/S12/current/ |
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| Description | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for biological entity (component of the what theme) plant or animal parts in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| Creator | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| Modified | 2024-12-12 |
| Version Info | 32 |
| Identifier | S12 |
| Register Manager | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| Register Owner | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| See Also | https://github.com/nvs-vocabs/S12 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| ID ↑ | Preferred Label ↑ | Definition ↑ | Date ↑ |
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| 41 | 16S ribosomal RNA molecules | Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules belonging to the smaller (30S) subunit of the ribosome of prokaryotic organisms. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1261 | baleen | A series of fringed keratin plates located in the upper jaw of certain whale species' mouths. Baleen is used as a filter-feeding mechanism whereby food sources such as krill, copepods and small fish are filtered from seawater entering a whale's mouth. | 2021-06-24 |
| S1263 | bell | The umbrella-shaped body part of a medusozoan Cnidaria (jellyfish). It can pulsate to provide propulsion. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1234 | bile | A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder which aids in the digestion of fats | 2010-08-09 |
| S1266 | bill | A projecting mouthpart found mainly in birds but also in turtles and other animals consisting of two bony projections (upper and lower mandibles) covered by a keratinised sheath of skin. | 2021-07-07 |
| S121 | bladders | Distensible membranous sacs containing liquid or gas found in certain types of algae (e.g. Phaeocystis or Fucus vesiculosus (bladderwrack)). | 2010-08-10 |
| S1230 | blood | Fluid contained in the vascular system of animals | 2010-01-25 |
| S1252 | blood cells | Cells found in the fluid contained in the vascular system of animals. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1254 | blood serum | Blood component without cells and clotting factors. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1229 | blubber | A thick layer of vascularised fat found under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians | 2010-01-25 |
| S1256 | body fat | A connective tissue consisting mainly of fat cells also called adipose cells or adipocytes. Its main role is to store energy but it also acts as a protective layer around the body and its organs. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1240 | bone | The rigid part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates except cartillagenous fish. | 2010-08-10 |
| S122 | bracts | Modified leaves growing at the base and in association with the reproductive organs of some plants (e.g. flower, inflorescence, cone scale). | 2014-10-31 |
| S1253 | brain | The organ that acts as the centre of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1281 | brown meat | A term used to refer to the flesh of crabs extracted from the main body cavity and consisting of the hepatopancreas (digestive gland) and reproductive organs. | 2022-05-17 |
| S1265 | carapace | Bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of some animals like turtles or crabs. | 2021-07-07 |
| S123 | cells | Biological particles delimited by a selectively permeable membrane containing a salty protoplasm, genetic material and non-genetic biomolecules; cells can be present as free-living single-cell organisms or as constituents of multicellular organisms. | 2024-12-11 |
| S1275 | central disc | The central body part of a starfish (Asteroidea) also known as sea star, containing the internal organs, and the mouth and anus, and from which arms arms radiate. The radius of the central disc is used as a standard biometric measurement in starfish studies. | 2021-08-25 |
| S1267 | clasper | An appendage, usually paired, under the abdomen of male cartilaginous fishes like sharks or rays, or at the end of the abdomen of a male insect, used to hold the female during copulation. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1242 | coccolith aggregates and coccospheres | Aggregations of calcite plates that represent either complete organisms or parts thereof | 2012-11-07 |
| S1215 | coccoliths | Discrete plates of calcium carbonate from the tests (coccospheres) of unicellular algae known as coccolthophores. | 2012-11-13 |
| S124 | coccospheres | Complete coccolithophore cells usually sperical in shape made up from individual calcareous plates known as coccoliths. | 2012-11-15 |
| S1284 | culmen | The upper margin of the beak or bill of a bird. | 2022-07-18 |
| S125 | cylindrical faecal pellets 25-40um diameter | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a cylinder with diameter of 25 to 40 micron. | 2014-10-31 |
| S126 | cylindrical faecal pellets 40-60um diameter | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a cylinder with diameter of 40 to 60 micron. | 2014-10-31 |
| S127 | cylindrical faecal pellets 60-100um diameter | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a cylinder with diameter of 60 to 100 micron. | 2014-10-31 |
| S128 | cylindrical faecal pellets <25um diameter | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a cylinder with diameter lesser than 25 micron. | 2014-10-31 |
| S129 | cylindrical faecal pellets >100um diameter | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a cylinder with diameter greater than 100 micron. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1259 | egg case | Casing that surrounds the eggs of oviparous sharks, skates, and chimaeras (cartilaginous fishes, members of the Chondrichthyes class). | 2020-02-17 |
| S1255 | egg yolk and albumen homogenate | Suspension resulting from the homogenization of the yolk and the albumen of an egg. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1210 | ellipsoidal faecal pellets | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of an ellipse. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1211 | empty frustules | The empty siliceous cell walls of diatoms. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1212 | exuvia | The cast-off outer skin of an organism after a moult (plural: exuviae). | 2014-10-31 |
| S1213 | faecal pellets | Small rounded particles excreted by animals. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1257 | feathers | Epidermal extensions (keratin) that are unique to birds. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1214 | flesh | The soft-body parts of an animal. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1233 | gill | A respiratory organ used to breathe oxygen dissolved in water by aquatic animals. | 2010-07-30 |
| S1236 | gonads | The primary sex organs of an organism. The term covers the organs of both sexes and may be used for example where ovaries and testes are pooled together for chemical analysis.. | 2010-08-09 |
| S1270 | head | The cephalic part of an organism, usually located at one end of the body, which contains the highest density of neurons, and often other sense organs. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1244 | heart | The heart is the organ that pumps blood around the body of an animal. | 2016-03-07 |
| S1243 | hepatopancreas | The hepatopancreas, digestive gland or midgut gland is an organ of the digestive tract of arthropods, molluscs and fish. It provides the functions which in mammals are provided separately by the liver and pancreas, including the production of digestive enzymes, and absorption of digested food. | 2016-02-03 |
| S1277 | host tissue | The soft tissue component of the host organism in a symbiotic (mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic) relationship. | 2022-04-08 |
| S1237 | intestine | The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. | 2010-08-09 |
| S1283 | intracellular reserve pool | The sum of substances (nutrients, neurotransmitters) which are present within a biological cell in a storage capacity. | 2022-05-17 |
| S1248 | kidney | The kidneys are bean-shaped organs that serve several essential regulatory roles in vertebrates. Their main function is the balance of Electrolytes in the blood, along with homeostasis of pH. They also remove excess organic molecules from the blood, and it is by this action that their best-known function is performed: the removal of waste products of metabolism. | 2016-04-06 |
| S1287 | leaf sheath | The basal tubular part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem. | 2024-02-01 |
| S1250 | leaves | The main organ of photosynthesis in higher plants. | 2017-10-22 |
| S1216 | liver | A large organ in vertebrates and some other animals that stores and metabolises nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. | 2010-08-10 |
| S1217 | loricae | The protective outer envelopes of some groups of protozoans ciliates and rotifers (singular: lorica). | 2014-10-31 |
| S1268 | lower rostrum | The lower part of an organism's two-part beak or beak-like projecting structure. The term is used in reference to cetaceans, crustaceans, cephalopods and some fishes. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1247 | lung | The lungs are the primary organs of respiration in humans and many other animals including a few fish and some snails. In mammals and most other vertebrates, two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of the heart. Their function in the respiratory system is to extract oxygen from the atmosphere and transfer it into the bloodstream, and to release carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere, in a process of gas exchange. | 2016-04-06 |
| S1262 | mantle | Also called pallium, plural pallia, or palliums, in biology, a soft covering, formed from the body wall, of brachiopods and molluscs; also, the fleshy outer covering, sometimes strengthened by calcified plates, of barnacles. (www.britannica.com) | 2021-07-07 |
| S1272 | metasome | The posterior of the two or three main divisions of the body of certain invertebrates. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1231 | milk | Fluid produced by female mammals to feed their young. | 2010-01-25 |
| S1218 | muscle tissue | Striated muscles, such as those that that move the skeleton (also called voluntary muscle). | 2010-08-10 |
| S1282 | muscle tissues and gonads | Muscles and gonads considered as one entity. | 2022-05-17 |
| S1258 | muscle tissues and skin | Muscles and skin considered as one entity. | 2018-05-29 |
| S1260 | nectophores | Also known as "swimming bells", nectophores are medusae that are specialized for moving a physonect siphonophore colony through the water. The region of the colony containing the nectophores is called the nectosome. | 2021-02-13 |
| S1228 | nifH gene copies | Copies of the gene coding for the dinitrogenase reductase subunit of the nitrogenase enzyme complex in nitrogen-fixing bacteria. | 2024-12-11 |
| S1219 | not specified | The biological entity definition does not specify a subcomponent of the organism as a component. | 2023-08-25 |
| S1232 | ovary | The female gonad. In animals it is the organ that produces eggs. In plants it is the part of the pistil that holds the ovules. | 2010-01-25 |
| S1220 | pollen | Microscopic particles and male fertilizing agent produced by flowering plants, trees, grasses and weeds in the course of their sexual reproduction cycle. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1227 | primary polyp | The most significant component of the body of the sedentary life-cycle stage of a cnidarian | 2006-10-23 |
| S1271 | prosome | The anterior of the two or three main divisions of the body of certain invertebrates. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1245 | red muscle tissue | The red muscle is also known as slow muscle and depends on aerobic metabolism for energy. This muscle contains a lot of myoglobin, capillaries and also a lot of glycogen and lipids. It is located in most fish as a band along the side of the fish. | 2016-03-08 |
| S1221 | remains | Body parts of a dead organism. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1251 | rhizomes | Underground stems that grows horizontally and from which roots and shoots can grow. | 2018-02-19 |
| S1278 | roots | The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres. | 2022-05-13 |
| S1279 | roots+rhizomes | The underground structures of a plant including the rhizomes which are subterranean horizontal stems from which roots and shoots can grow; and roots which are the parts of a plant which attach it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres. | 2022-05-13 |
| S1239 | shell | The hard outer covering of certain organisms (e.g.arthropods, bivalves, gastropods, crustaceans and turtles), birds' eggs and the seeds of some plants (e.g. nuts). | 2010-08-10 |
| S1264 | shoot | Above ground part of plants consisting of any plant stem together with its appendages, leaves and lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1285 | siphosome | Stem of a siphonophore colony to which feeding, reproductive, defensive and buoyant zooid units are attached. | 2023-06-08 |
| S1222 | skeleton | The system that provides support to an organism. It is internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, but may be external in some other animals and possibly plants | 2010-08-09 |
| S1235 | skin | The soft outer covering of a vertebrate animal. | 2010-08-09 |
| S1223 | spherical faecal pellets | Small rounded particles excreted by animals with the shape of a sphere. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1249 | spleen | An abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system. | 2016-04-06 |
| S1276 | starfish arm | One of generally five (but, in some species, more) appendages of a starfish (also known as sea stars) that radiate from the central disc. | 2021-09-20 |
| S1286 | stipe | The stalk or stem of plants (including macroalgae) and fungi. | 2024-02-01 |
| S1280 | structural cellular components | The physical parts of a cell including the cell wall (if present), cell membrane, nucleus, and other organelles. | 2022-05-17 |
| S1273 | tarsus | The bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg; also the foot of an insect or a crustacean, usually consisting of two to five joints. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1224 | tests | The hard outer covering of some protozoans (e.g. foraminifera) and echinoderms (sea urchins). | 2010-08-10 |
| S1225 | tissue | A group of specialised interconnected cells of similar type and function that plays a specific role in the body of a multicellular organism. | 2024-12-11 |
| S1226 | trichomes | Elongated hair-like structures formed by a single line of cells in filamentous cyanobacteria colonies; the term can also refer to fine extensions from a single single or extensions made of multiple cells found in some species of plants, algae, lichen or protists. | 2014-10-31 |
| S1269 | upper rostrum | The upper part of an organism's two-part beak or beak-like projecting structure. The term is used in reference to cetaceans, crustaceans, cephalopods and some fishes. | 2021-07-07 |
| S1241 | vas deferens | A coiled tube that carries the sperm out of the testes. | 2010-08-10 |
| S1238 | viscera | The internal organs of the body cavity. | 2010-08-09 |
| S1246 | white muscle tissue | The white muscle is also known as fast muscle and depends on anaerobic metabolism for energy. This muscle contains lower levels of myoglobin and mitochondria than red muslce. It is the predominant type of muscle in fish. | 2016-03-08 |
| S1274 | wings | Paired structures which certain animals use to propel themselves in the air or water. | 2021-07-07 |
