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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Process by which autotrophic chlorophyll-containing organisms manufacture their own energy sources (simple sugars) from the intracellular chemical reaction of carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. Oxygen is a photochemical byproduct of photosynthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
The anatomical term for "above" (e.g., the head is superior to the shoulder).
Industry:Natural environment
The internal biological clock mechanism that produces a measurable biological rhythm in an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The relationship of any two characters that have descended from a common ancestor. The term can apply to a morphological structure, a chromosome, an individual gene, or a DNA sequence.
Industry:Natural environment
Transferring data (usually a file) from one computer to another. The opposite of "upload".
Industry:Natural environment
A condition of skeletal architecture in sponges in which sand and/or foreign spicule debris partly or completely replaces native spicules within the sponge skeleton; resembling or containing sand; or growing in sandy areas.
Industry:Natural environment
A group of organisms consuming resources from a similar level in the energy cycle.
Industry:Natural environment
A multidisciplinary science that deals with the conservation of genes, species, populations, communities, and ecosystems that make up the Earth's biodiversity. Its goals are to investigate human impacts of biodiversity and to develop approaches to prevent extinction of species through stewardship of entire biological communities.
Industry:Natural environment
A sedimentary rock made of spherical or egg-shaped grains of calcium carbonate (ooids). If the ooids are greater than two mm in diameter, the rock may be called a "pisolite"; also called "egg stone" .
Industry:Natural environment
