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by otabdeveloper4 1694 days ago
Ants queens, for example, mate only once in their life and live for up to 20 years. All the individual ants in the colony are effectively clones from the genetic material of that one foundational mating act.

So it makes sense to consider the ant colony to be one "organism", and yes, it's very much a long-lived, intelligent and massive organism.

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Are twins also one organism?
In both cases genetics only has a partial say in phenomics.