From the very beginning, the parasites would have different levels of genome complexity, from the minimal replicable unit, like in viroids, to more complex entities that might encode one or more proteins facilitating their own replication.
The purpose of this paper is to explore how two domain reference ontologies the FMA and the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology, can be used (i) to align existing terminologies, (ii) to infer new knowledge in ontologies of more complex entities, and (iii) to manage and help reasoning about individual data.
Crucially, a vehicular medium is said to incorporate not only physical objects (such as paintings and sculptures, say) but also actions, events, and generally more complex entities.
Such a view does not preclude the possibility that assemblies of units in a connectionist system do in fact encode symbols and more complex entities built out of symbols, such as predications and rules.
Hence, for Armstrong, it appears that simple states of affairs and their constituents exist most fundamentally and that the existence of more complex entities is in a certain sense derivative.
Structured groups, instead, are more complex entities, usually larger than simple groups (more than 4 individuals) and they can be considered as being composed of sub-groups that can be, in turn, either simple or structured.
Generally, of course, one does find an obstacle to taking a metaphor literally, either within the sentence itself, or within the more complex entity which is the utterance of the sentence within a certain context (that is, within what Austin called "the total speech act in the total speech situation"); but there need be no obstacle.
These are the most common and while other more complex entity choices do exist, including a full C Corporation, we are keeping to the simple and commonly used.
This will result in a loss of information as a pathway mention refers to a different and more complex entity.
More recent research has shown that notion to be too simple: job performance is a much more complex entity that varies with a host of tangible and intangible factors.
Features typical of an acute injury like myocardial oedema, microvascular obstruction, and intramyocardial haemorrhage make the acute scar a much more complex entity to analyse compared with a chronic scar.
