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3 years ago | Field | Value |
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| Term | Material Sample |
| Definition | The physical result of a sampling (or subsampling) event. In biological collections, the material sample is typically collected, and either preserved or destructively processed. Might contain DNA/RNA, but doesn't have to. "Genomic Sample" is a subset of Material Samples containing molecular properties. |
| Examples | specimen, culture, DNA, RNA, tissue, environmental sample (or eSample) |
| Reference | DwC, https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/; Droege,G. et al. (2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baw125 |
| DwC:basisOfRecord | MaterialSample |
| ABCD:RecordBasis | MaterialSample |