what term refers to a distinct form of life?

Answer 1

SPECIES & SUBSPECIES

IN CERTAIN CASES, EVEN MORE DISTINCT ARE RACES

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Answer 2

Human?

Animal?

Plant?

Genus?

Species?

Genus (plural: genera) is the first part of the name of an organism used in binomial nomenclature. An example is Homo sapiens, the name for the human species (Latin for "wise man") which belongs to the genus Homo.
Genera are sometimes divided into subgenera (singular: subgenus).

Each genus must have a designated type species (see Type (zoology)). The generic name is permanently associated with the type specimen of its type species. Should this specimen turn out to be assignable to another genus, the genus name linked to it becomes a junior synonym, and the remaining taxa in the now-invalid genus need to be reassessed. See scientific classification and nomenclature Codes for more details of this system. Also see type genus.

Answer 3

organism
(definition #2 is what you're referring to)
or·gan·ism [awr-guh-niz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - –noun
1. a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
2. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
3. any organized body or system conceived of as analogous to a living being: the governmental organism.
4. any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.

Answer 4

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genes
Species

Answer 5

species

Answer 6

E.T?