The Entity Modelling Tutorial Part One - Entities, Composition and Context
Examples from Biology
As a further illustration of the notations described so far figures 15 and 16 give examples
representing descriptions given in Biology.
the characteristics of phylum arthropoda are (i) exoskeleton, (ii) body segments grouped
into
specialized regions (= tagmata)
(iii) jointed appendages variously specialized for feeding, locomotion, sensing
Figure 15
an elementary description of phylum arthropoda
Figure 16
You should know:
animal cells have a nucleus, cytoplasm and a cell membrane.
Plant cells also have a cell wall, a vacuole and chloroplasts.