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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The most anterior of three coelomic spaces that appear during larval development of echinoderms.
Industry:Natural environment
The smallest unit of information that a computer can store and process. A bit has two possible values, 0 or 1, which can be interpreted as yes/no, true/false, or on/off.
Industry:Natural environment
A body shape which is flattened laterally, bringing the right and left sides closer together, e.g., a butterfly fish or a flounder.
Industry:Natural environment
A diverticulum of the rectum of most cephalopods, where an 'inky" melanin solution is stored. The ink is ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. It serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from predators.
Industry:Natural environment
A line on a map or chart that connects all points having the same depth below a water surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A planktonic larva that gains its nutrition from yolk (semi-crystalline phospholipoprotein granules). In most bony fishes, yolk is supplied by the yolk sac, a bag-like ventral extension of the gut containing yolk granules.
Industry:Natural environment
A solid structure built at an angle from a shore prevent erosion from currents, tides and waves, or to trap sand.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of motility of a cell in which cytoplasmic streaming (directional flow of cytoplasm) extrudes outward of the cell to form pseudopodia (false feet) so that the cell can change its location.
Industry:Natural environment
An expression for the ratio of the 18O to 16O atoms in a sample relative to a standard, defined as: δ18o = (18O/16O sample - 18O/18O standard)/ 18O/16O standard.
Industry:Natural environment
Any substance assimilated by organisms that promotes growth. Marine scientists typically measure nitrites, nitrates, phosphates, and silicates as nutrients for plant growth.
Industry:Natural environment
