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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A reef that forms on the continental shelf of large land masses.
Industry:Natural environment
A substance similar in its properties to an extracellular bacterial toxin.
Industry:Natural environment
An organic nonprotein molecule that binds with the protein molecule to form the active enzyme.
Industry:Natural environment
In a vertebrate skeleton, the skull, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum.
Industry:Natural environment
Index based on the strength and duration of local hotspots to monitor bleaching events.
Industry:Natural environment
The extensive spaces of an arthropod's body through which the hemolymph (blood) circulates.
Industry:Natural environment
The process of determining the amino acid sequence of a protein, or its component polypeptides.
Industry:Natural environment
The vertical zone in the ocean extending from the surface to that depth permitting photosynthetic activity.
Industry:Natural environment
Polaris, the North Star, is visible in the northern hemisphere and indicates the direction of north. In the southern hemisphere the Southern Cross is used to find the direction of south.
Industry:Natural environment
A circulatory system, characteristic of some invertebrates, e.g., arthropods, in which blood flows through an interconnected system of open sinuses rather than blood vessels. The tissues and cells are directly bathed by the blood for gaseous exchange and nutrient uptake. The circulatory fluid is called the hemolymph.
Industry:Natural environment
