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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A synthetic rubber with good resistance to oil, chemical, and fire. Wet suits and other "rubber" diving accessories used by scuba divers are made of neoprene .
Industry:Natural environment
An amino acid which can be synthesised by the organism's body, and not required in the nourishment source. Humans can make 13 nonessential amino acids.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism whose phenotype (but not genotype) has been changed by the environment to resemble the phenotype usually associated with a mutant organism; a phenotypic variation in an organism that has an environmental rather than a genetic cause, and is not inherited .
Industry:Natural environment
In ecology, the total energy content of all organisms at each trophic level in a food chain; the energy content declines at successively higher trophic levels.
Industry:Natural environment
Planktonic organisms that spend their entire life cycle in the floating state, as contrasted with organisms, such as fishes, which spend only a portion of their life cycle (eggs, larvae) as members of the planktonic community.
Industry:Natural environment
The heating that occurs when gases such as carbon dioxide trap heat escaping from the Earth and radiate it back to the surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A complex molecule which is the main component of dietary and body fat. It is made up of a combination of glycerol and three fatty acids.
Industry:Natural environment
A green pigment present in green plants and cyanobacteria. Chlorophyll is essential in the transformation of light energy to chemical energy in photosynthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A molluskan larva in which the foot, mantle and shell first make their appearance.
Industry:Natural environment
