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Parts that create compartments in an entity

Title: Compartments in an Entity

Description: Consider the sentence: ``Internal membranes compartmentalize the functions of a eukaryotic cell. The existing ontologies provide ways of stating parts of an entity. But in this example, we need to state parts that create disjoint compartments within an entity.

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Users Vinay K Chaudhri
Domains Biology
Competency Questions How is it possible that incompatible processes can simultaneously go on within a Eukaryotic cell?
 ---> That is because the cell membranes compartmentalize a cell into disjoint chambers
 ---> Therefore, the process going on in one chamber does not affect another
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This problem arose in the context of representing knowledge in a Biology textbook in the context of Project Halo (http://www.projecthalo.com)

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