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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A large flat or ridged-topped tooth adapted for crushing or grinding.
Industry:Natural environment
A parasite which lives in the internal organs of its host.
Industry:Natural environment
A small area where water that may be of a different temperature and density flows from below the seafloor and rises slowly into the ocean; a spot where water that is flowing below the earth’s surface slowly oozes out to form a small pool or a spring abov.
Industry:Natural environment
An attempt to express the natural order (i.e. Classification) of organisms in numbers, so that each taxon name is represented by a numerical code, the structure of which indicates its taxonomic position, rank and affinities.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of various chemicals, particularly polypeptides, that have a variety of important roles in the stimulation of new cell growth and cell maintenance. They bind to the cell surface on receptors. Specific growth factors can cause new cell proliferation.
Industry:Natural environment
Each of a pair of identical DNA molecules after DNA replication, joined at the centromere.
Industry:Natural environment
In sea slugs, the upstanding flange from the antero-lateral part of the mantle into which a rhinophore can be contracted.
Industry:Natural environment
Related to the environment, the concept of responsible caretaking, based on the premise that we do not own resources, but are managers and are responsible to future generations for their condition; the science, art and skill of responsible and accountable management of resources.
Industry:Natural environment
