Organ may refer to: Organ (anatomy), a group of tissues which perform some function. Organ (music), a musical instrument. The Organ, an indie rock band. Stalin's Organ, another name for the Katyusha rocket launcher. In warfare, a 17th century historical artillery design, resembling the appearance of the musical instrument. In politics, an agency, institution, council, or parliament of a given organization, such as the European Union, United Nations, or African Union.

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In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is a complex adaptive system of organs that influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole and have properties of life. The origin of life and the relationships between its major lineages are controversial. Two main grades may be distinguished, the prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The prokaryotes are generally considered to represent two separate domains, called the Bacteria and Archaea, which are not closer to one anothe ...

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An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations. Often in this kind of arrangement, the umbrella organization is to some degree responsible for starting the gr ...

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Virtual organization. A Virtual Organization comprises a set of (legally) independent organizations that share resources and skills to achieve its mission / goal, but that is not limited to an alliance of for profit enterprises. The interaction among members of the virtual organization is mainly done through computer networks. A Virtual Organization is a manifestation of Collaborative Networks. See also Virtual Enterprise. In business a virtual organization is a firm that

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A criminal organization is a group run by criminals to further their illegal activities. They are usually involved with drugs, prostitution, money laundering and black marketeering. These activities are also called vice and organized crime. Some also engage in acts of political, racist, and religiously motivated violence, and in acts of terrorism and crimes against humanity. Examples of criminal organizations would include the Mafia and the Yakuza. The role of prison gangs, by definition crimin ...

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The vomeronasal organ (VNO) or Jacobson's organ is an auxiliary olfactory sense organ in some tetrapods. In adults, it is located in the vomer bone, between the nose and the mouth. It develops from the nasal (olfactory) placode, at the anterior edge of the neural plate. Its function is somewhat mysterious. The sensory neurons within the vomeronasal organ detect distinct chemical compounds, often but not always large molecules. The vomeronasal organ is used in the detection of pheromones in some animals such as mic ...

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An anaerobic organism or anaerobe is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth. Obligate anaerobes will die when exposed to atmospheric levels of oxygen, while facultative anaerobes can use oxygen when it is present. Aerotolerant organisms do not require oxygen, but are not affected by exposure to air. Microaerophiles are organisms that may use oxygen, but only at low concentrations (low micromolar range); their growth is inhibited by normal oxygen concentrations (approximately 200 micromolar). < ...

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An aerobic organism or aerobe is an organism that has an oxygen based metabolism. Aerobes, in a process known as cellular respiration, use oxygen to oxidize substrates (for example sugars and fats) in order to obtain energy. A good example would be the oxidation of glucose (a monosaccharide) in aerobic respiration. C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 38 ADP + 38 phosphate ...

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Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people ...

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In agriculture and gardening, a beneficial organism is any animal, insect or other living organism, including microorganisms, that provides an advantage in the growing process. These services fall in three broad categories: pest control, pollination, and general soil maintenance. The opposite of beneficial organisms are pests, organisms that are deemed detrimental to the growing process. The distinction between beneficial and pest is arbitrary, subjectively determined by examining the effect of a particular organsim in a ...

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A youth organization is a formal organization aimed at children and adolescents for education and socialization. Most organizations have certain ideals and values that they aim to pass on to their members. Youth organization - List of youth organizations. Organizations are international unless noted as associated with a specific country 4-H Big Brothers (US) Big Sisters (US) Boys and Girls Clubs of America (US) Boys' Brigade British Columbia Y ...

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A vestigial organ is an organ whose original function is considered to have been lost or reduced during evolution. In 1893, Robert Wiedersheim published a list of 86 human organs that had no known function. Theorizing that they were vestiges of evolution, he called them "vestigial". Today, the list of human vestigial organs is still the same, although the list of useless vestigial organs is much smaller, and hotly debated. It still includes the appendix, and coccyx. Many people maintain that the coccyx is a remnant of a lost ta ...

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Business organizations is an area of law that covers the broad array of rules governing the formation and operation of different kinds of entities by which individuals can organize to do business. The term is also used to describe the entities themselves. A variety of other terms are used fairly interchangeably to describe this area, including or business associations, business forms, and business entities. Reference to a "business" entity usually (though not always) indicates ...

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The Cobra Organization (officially called Cobra Command) is the fictional nemesis of the G.I. Joe team, and part of a line of action figures sold by Hasbro, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Though the G.I. Joe toys had been produced since the 1960s, Cobra was introduced when the G.I. Joe line was relaunched in the early 1980s. This relaunch was accompanied by a Marvel comic, written by Larry Hama, and an animated television series for children. Comic writer Josh Blaylock once compared them to the Legion of Doom. It must be stres ...

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A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis and foreskin), prepuce, testicles, scrotum, prostate, seminal vesicles, epididymis, Cowper's glands Female: vulva (notably the clitoris and labia), vagina, cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ova ...

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 187 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established in 1950, WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences. It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current president is Alexander Bedritsky and the current Secretary-General is Michel ...

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The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization that helps member states communicate and cooperate on customs issues. It was established in 1952 as the Customs Cooperation Council; it adopted its current name in 1994. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, it develops agreed rules on customs procedures and provides advice and assistance to customs services. It has established an international standard classification of commodities called the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ...

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Weatherman, also known as the Weather Underground Organization and, colloquially, sometimes 'the Weathermen', was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men," and carried out guerrilla actions, now often characterized as terrorist, to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of the government of the United States. The group collapsed shortly after the U ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO was established by the UN on April 7, 1948. The current Director General is Lee Jong-wook. WHO inherited much of the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization (HO), which had been an agency of the League of Nations. World Health Organization - Mission. WHO's constitution states that its mission "is the att ...

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