Class: BiologicalQuality

A biological quality is a quality held by a biological entity.

URI: sio:BiologicalQuality

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Parents

  • is_a: ObjectQuality - An object quality is quality of an object.

Children

  • BiologicalSex - biological sex is the quality of a biological organism based on reproductive function or organs.
  • CellularQuality - cellular quality is the quality of a cell
  • Disease - disease is the outward manifestation of one or more disorders.
  • Ethnicity - ethnicity is the biological quality of membership in a social group based on a common heritage.
  • LifeStatus - life status is the quality of whether something is alive or dead.
  • ParentalTransmission - parental transmition is the quality of a biological organism in which the (genetic) material is transmitted from a parental unit.
  • Phenotype - A phenotype is an observable characteristic of an individual.
  • Race - race is a characteristic of an individual by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, ethnicity, and social status.
  • Zygosity - zygosity is the quality pertaining to the allelic complement of a biological system at a single locus on the DNA.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from ObjectQuality:

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity

  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1

    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity
    • isQualityOf 0..1

    • Description: is quality of is a relation between a quality and the entity that it is a property of.

    • Range: Entity

    • isBaseFor 0..1

    • Description: is base for is a relation between a quality and the realizable entity that it is the basis for.

    • Range: RealizableEntity