术语信息
editor note
Note: definition is in specimen creation objective which is defined as an objective to obtain and store a material entity for potential use as an input during an investigation.
example of usage
A herbarium or museum specimen.
Biobanking of blood taken and stored in a freezer for potential future investigations stores specimen.
A jar of water, the microbes that were filtered from that water, the DNA extracted from those microbes, a subsample of that DNA.