Individual

An individual is that which exists as the distinct needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. a concept of an individual qualities in diverse fields, including biology, law, in addition to philosophy.

Biology

In biology, the impeach of the individual is related to the definition of an organism, which is an important impeach in biology and philosophy of biology, despite there having been little take devoted explicitly to this question. An individual organism is non the only species of individual that is considered as a "unit of selection". Genes, genomes, or groups may function as individual units.

Asexual reproduction occurs in some colonial organisms so that the individuals are genetically identical. such a colony is called a genet, and an individual in such(a) a population is sent to as a ramet. The colony, rather than the individual, functions as a ingredient of selection. In other colonial organisms the individuals may be closely related to one another but differ as a a object that is said of sexual reproduction.