]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. gene Gene-HereditaryUnit genes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene The collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv0yv45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gene_HereditaryUnit</a>s found in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjVN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProkaryoticCell</a>s, which include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjU-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Bacterium</a>. ProkaryoticGene-HereditaryUnit prokaryotic gene eukaryotic gene EukaryoticGene The collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv0yv45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gene_HereditaryUnit</a>s found in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVju55wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EukaryoticCell</a>s,the cellular components of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv8gyOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EukaryoticOrganism</a>s. A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvo5pTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Series</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwEy5uJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PhysicalSeries</a> is a group of partially tangible objects ordered in a linear fashion, most likely according to some spatial relationship. Instances would include a group of people in line at a ticket booth, or the vertebrae in a person's spine. PhysicalSeries physical series chromosome A collection of the microscopic bodies formed by the incorporation of chromatins in the cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis. They carry the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv0yv45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gene_HereditaryUnit</a>s that convey hereditary characteristics, and are constant in number for each species. Chromosome Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString gene A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. Gene-HereditaryUnit <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. BT broaderTerm A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViRapwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ChemicalObject</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuqfzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ChemicalGeneticIBT</a> are chemical objects that are considered to be bearing information in virtue of their ability to play functional roles in handling, reproduction, transmission and utilization of genetic information. Main specs of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuqfzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ChemicalGeneticIBT</a> are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv986zZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nucleotide</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv0yv45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gene_HereditaryUnit</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv-_ts5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PolynucleotideMolecule</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv_WZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeneticInformationStructure</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4CBrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">instantiationOfGIS</a>. While the abstract information instantiated by instances of this collection could be instantiated in a non-chemical format, for example a list of letters, numbers and parentheses, a diagram of letters and line segments, a plastic model of balls and sticks, or some other means of conventionally representing the structure of such a chemical object, these other instantiations would not be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuqfzpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ChemicalGeneticIBT</a> but would be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SymbolicObject</a> or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj3tJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WrittenCharacterSequence</a>. chemical object bearing genetic information ChemicalGeneticIBT A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object gene A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. Gene-HereditaryUnit gene A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. Gene-HereditaryUnit gene A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. Gene-HereditaryUnit gene A collection of the units of heredity. They occur at specific points on chromosomes; they transmit and determine the hereditary characteristics of all living organisms. They consist primarily of DNA and protein. Gene-HereditaryUnit organic matter A collection of tangible things. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> is a tangible thing composed of one or more types of organic <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjwspwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Molecule</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> usually have their origin in the bodies (or other products) of living things. Since some organic substances can be synthesized, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> is not a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a>. Chemically, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> have fairly (or very) complex carbon-based structures. Examples include all instances of the collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjZ6ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oil</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXHLJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DNAStuff</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVim-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Alcohol_Compound</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjL-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ivory</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalBodyPart</a>. OrganicMaterial