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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Acoustic signals originating from a variety of underwater sources, such as propeller cavitation, engine noises, animal sounds, wind, waves, and rain.
Industry:Natural environment
An invertebrate which resembles a plant in appearance or mode of growth, as for example, hard corals, sea fans, and other soft corals, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a tree-like form.
Industry:Natural environment
Having two margins which are toothed, like a comb; descriptive of the gills (ctenidia) of aquatic mollusks.
Industry:Natural environment
The enzyme which activates luciferin, in the presence of ATP, to produce bioluminescence.
Industry:Natural environment
The principle that the simplest explanation, the one that requires the fewest hypotheses, is the one most likely to be correct; same as Occam's Razor: the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred.
Industry:Natural environment
The union or connecting of branches forming a meshwork or a network.
Industry:Natural environment
