Living Agent Inventory: Living Agents

Last modified: Sat 4/26/97 0000 PDT

Canon Terms	Object	Classes	LivingSystem
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	Event	Classes	Life; Metabolism; Reproduction
		Instances	(none)

A Living Agent is a complex aggregate of interacting Physical Agents in which the phenomenon of life (the ability to process matter and energy from the agent's environment, called metabolism, and the ability to create agents similar to itself, called reproduction) has emerged. The study of Living Agents is the subject matter of biology, sometimes referred to as bioscience or life science.

• You can learn about Living Agents here:
• Living Things (The Franklin Institute)
• MIT Biology Hypertextbook (Shane Crotty)

The major subclasses of Living Agents are

• Ecosystem
• Organism
• Cell