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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An extracellular material that forms the outer surface of plant, fungus, and certain bacterial cells. It is external to the cell membrane and serves in a structural and supporting role. The cell wall is composed primarily of cellulose and lignin in plants, chitin in Fungi, and peptidoglycans in bacteria.
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Any unsegmented roundworm of the phylum Nemata, having a tough outer cuticle. The phylum includes free-living forms and disease-causing parasites.
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In taxonomy, a formerly invalid or unavailable name that has been made valid or available by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, e.g. By annulment or suppression of senior homonyms or synonyms.
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One of many radiating calcareous partitions in the skeletal cup (corallite) of stony corals.
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Scuba diving that requires in-water stops during ascent to the surface to allow off-gassing of nitrogen.
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The cycling of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, carbonates, organic compounds, etc., between various reservoirs, e.g., the atmosphere, the oceans, land and marine biota and, on geological time scales, sediments and rocks.
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The study of organisms that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope.
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A DNA sequence that codes for a specific polypeptide; an alternate name for a gene.
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