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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A pimple- or wart-like projection; a bump or raised knob on the outside surface of a mollusk shell.
Industry:Natural environment
A soft, wet area periodically or continuously flooded to a shallow depth, usually characterised by a particular group of grasses, cattails and other low plants.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of egg cell that has its yolk in the very centre of the cytoplasm, such that the initial meroblastic cleavage of the zygote happens all around the embryo. Most arthropods have centrolecithal eggs.
Industry:Natural environment
An estimate of the amount of living matter per some unit volume or area.
Industry:Natural environment
Any species of sponge generally occurring at depths below 50 m that provides vertical structure above the sea floor and can occur at a population density such that they promote the development of associated communities .
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, a category just beneath the phylum and above the order; a group of related orders.
Industry:Natural environment
One of a series of bones conducting sound in some fishes.
Industry:Natural environment
The conversion of information from gene to protein via transcription and translation.
Industry:Natural environment
The number of different species in an area and their relative abundance.
Industry:Natural environment
The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture; the phase of vigorous growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30 minutes; also called 'log or exponential growth phase'.
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