definiens: shall mean any chemical or biological substances including, without limitation, any : ( i ) organic orinorganic chemical element or compound ; ( ii ) nucleic acid ; ( iii ) vector of any type ( e.g., cosmid, plasmid, spore, phage, virus, or virus - like particle ), and subunits of the foregoing ; ( iv ) host organism, including, without limitation, prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells or animals ; ( v ) eukaryotic cell line, prokaryotic cell line or expression system ; ( vi ) protein, including, withoutlimitation, any peptide or amino acid sequence, enzyme, antibody or protein conferring targeting properties and any fragmentof any of the foregoing ; ( vii ) genetic material, including, without limitation, any genetic nucleic acid construct, marker geneand genetic control element ( e.g., promoter, termination signal ), gene, genome or variant of any of the foregoing ; and / or(viii ) assay or reagent