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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An analgesic drug made from the venom of a species of cone shell snail, Conus magus. The particular anagesic substance in the venom is a conopeptide, one of the first pharmaceuticals that demonstrate the promise of "drugs from the sea".
Industry:Natural environment
An organism, usually a fish, that takes its food from the air/water interface, or feeds just below the water surface, e.g., a needlefish.
Industry:Natural environment
In ethology or animal behavior, an innate system within an animal that responds to a stimulus in the environment to produce a genetic stereotyped behavior; a stimulus-response mechanism.
Industry:Natural environment
The imaginary line running from bow (front) to stern (rear) along the middle of a vessel.
Industry:Natural environment
The recovery of specific ecosystem components in a degraded ecosystem or habitat.
Industry:Natural environment
A groove in the pharynx of some cnidarians that is lined with cilia which pump water into the animal's gastrovascular cavity.This water current inflates the body, circulates fluids, and provides a volume of water to act as a hydrostatic skeleton.
Industry:Natural environment
A monitoring programme designed to evaluate the current condition of physical and biological features found in an ecosystem and to detect changes that may occur over time.
Industry:Natural environment
A sampling technique where a group of subjects (a sample) is selected for study from a larger group (a population). Each individual is chosen entirely by chance and each member of the population has a known, but possibly non-equal, chance of being included in the sample. By using random sampling, the likelihood of bias is reduced.
Industry:Natural environment
