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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The protein substance of the collagenous fibres (white fibers) of skin, tendon, bone, cartilage and all other connective tissue. Collagen also serves as skeletal support in some sponges.
Industry:Natural environment
Small vesicles and pores around the head of a shark that form part of an extensive subcutaneous sensory network system that detects weak magnetic fields produced by other fishes, at least over short ranges. This enables the shark to locate prey that are buried in the sand, or orient to nearby movement. The ampullae may also allow the shark to detect changes in water temperature.
Industry:Natural environment
A collagenous layer that separates the choanochambers of hexactinellid sponges (glass sponges).
Industry:Natural environment
A microorganism which grows best (or can only grow) in high-pressure environments, such as deep-sea environments.
Industry:Natural environment
A reproductive polyp of a colonial hydrozoan. It consists of a stalk containing medusa buds surrounded by a thin membrane, the gonotheca.
Industry:Natural environment
A survey of anglers in a particular area to discover the types and numbers of fish caught.
Industry:Natural environment
An abstraction of the real world where spatial data is expressed as a matrix of cells or pixels, with spatial position implicit in the ordering of the pixels. With the raster data model, spatial data is not continuous but divided into discrete units. This makes raster data particularly suitable for certain types of spatial operation. The term may also refer to the region of a CRT (cathode-ray tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor that is capable of rendering images.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that obtains nutrients through the active uptake of soluble materials across the cell membrane.
Industry:Natural environment
In chemistry, a single molecule that is the subunit of a polymer; in genetics, a character determined by a gene or genes at a particular locus.
Industry:Natural environment
