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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A microscope which beams electrons, instead of light beams, at and through the object of interest. This type of microscope provides the greatest resolution of extremely small details in the nanometer size range. Magnification may be up to x300,000 .
Industry:Natural environment
A resource or substance that can be replenished through natural or artificial means.
Industry:Natural environment
A suspension feeder that traps particles on distinct tentacles or tube feet (in echinoderms).
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that utilizes oxidation of inorganic chemicals for its energy and carbon from inorganic carbon dioxide for cell growth; these organisms are also called chemolithotrophs.
Industry:Natural environment
Competition between individuals of different species.
Industry:Natural environment
In cnidarians, a primitive "connective tissue" located between the epidermis and the gastrodermis. If it contains no cell components, it is termed "mesoglea"; undifferentiated cells of an embryo, derived from mesoderm, which give rise to connective tissue and the circulatory and lymphatics systems; amoebocytic cells often embedded in a gelatinous matrix.
Industry:Natural environment
The ability of an individual organism to distinguish its own tissues from those of another; the recognition of antigens, expressed on the surface of cells of non-self origin. Allorecognition has been described in nearly all multicellular phyla.
Industry:Natural environment
