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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A substance that takes part in the process of metabolism, which involves the breakdown of complex organic constituents of the organism's body with the liberation of energy for use in bodily functioning. The various compounds that take part in, or are formed by, these reactions are called metabolites.
Industry:Natural environment
All the interactions of predator and prey, included along with the exchange of nutrients into and out of the ecosystem. These interactions connect the various members of an ecosystem, and describe how energy is converted and passes from one organism to another.
Industry:Natural environment
In animal behavior, the individual that takes a lead role and occupies the dominant position in a group.
Industry:Natural environment
Inhabiting a tube or tubular structure; tube dwelling, such as some marine polychaete worms.
Industry:Natural environment
The field of biology that deals with the relationships among organisms.
Industry:Natural environment
The wearing away of the land surface naturally by wind or water, but is often intensified by human's land-clearing practices. The runoff is harmful to coral reefs .
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to organisms that grow and reproduce at extremely low temperatures, typically below 10 degrees C.
Industry:Natural environment
A class of subatomic particles that constitute matter which have no measurable size and do not interact with the strong nuclear force. The charged leptons are the electron, the muon, the tau and their antiparticles. Neutral leptons are called neutrinos.
Industry:Natural environment
A gene coded on a sex chromosome, such as the X-chromosome-linked genes.
Industry:Natural environment
