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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The ‘Washington’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more commonly known as CITES, aims to protect certain plants and animals by regulating and monitoring their international trade to prevent it reaching unsustainable levels. There are more than 150 Parties to the Convention. The CITES Secretariat is administered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). CITES regulates international trade in over 30,000 species, of which approximately 25,000 are plants.
Industry:Natural environment
A collection of tissues which performs a particular function or set of functions in an animal's body. Organs are composed of tissues, and may be organised into larger organ systems.
Industry:Natural environment
A general term for enzymes that carry out the synthesis of nucleic acids.
Industry:Natural environment
A microscope which beams electrons, instead of light beams, at and through the object of interest. This type of microscope provides the greatest resolution of extremely small details in the nanometer size range. Magnification may be up to x300,000 .
Industry:Natural environment
A resource or substance that can be replenished through natural or artificial means.
Industry:Natural environment
A suspension feeder that traps particles on distinct tentacles or tube feet (in echinoderms).
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that utilises oxidation of inorganic chemicals for its energy and carbon from inorganic carbon dioxide for cell growth; these organisms are also called chemolithotrophs.
Industry:Natural environment
In cnidarians, a primitive "connective tissue" located between the epidermis and the gastrodermis. If it contains no cell components, it is termed "mesoglea"; undifferentiated cells of an embryo, derived from mesoderm, which give rise to connective tissue and the circulatory and lymphatics systems; amoebocytic cells often embedded in a gelatinous matrix.
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The ability of an individual organism to distinguish its own tissues from those of another; the recognition of antigens, expressed on the surface of cells of non-self origin. Allorecognition has been described in nearly all multicellular phyla.
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The former name for the blue-green bacteria, now classified as Cyanobacteria. A group of prokaryotic cells that use chlorophyll on intracytoplasmic membranes for photosynthesis. The blue green colour is due to the presence of phycobiliproteins. They occur as single cells, colonies or simple filaments.
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