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PaST Thesaurus Navigator

Use this page to navigate the Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) thesaurus and discover information about terms such as definitions, relations, and vocabulary hierarchies.


biological material(metaterm)
measurements of cells or collections of cells that partially or completely compose an organism or group of organisms.
ROOT > what > biological material

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what
Measured Variable Terms
This page is used for exploring the WDS-Paleo controlled vocabulary for measured variables (PaST Thesaurus). A term's title and description will appear here. Terms marked as 'metaterm' are not searchable in the Variables Advanced Search, but serve to organize terms into a hierarchy.