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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical, ciliated larva of some echinoderms, such as sea urchins and brittlestars.
Industry:Natural environment
A red, water soluble pigment found in red algae and cyanobacteria.
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A sub-microscopic, obligate intracellular parasite that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; the structure of a virus is basically a strand of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin protein shell. A virus is not a cell, and is "lifelike" only when replicating itself at the expense of the host cell.
Industry:Natural environment
Algae that project more than one centimetre above the substratum.
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Characterised by reproducing by the fusion of small motile male gametes and large nonmotile female gametes.
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In a parasite's life cycle, it is a host organism in which a parasite undergoes a stage of asexual development.
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Swelling or protuberance; a convex hump; something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
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The exposed white calcium carbonate skeleton of a coral colony.
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