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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A circular shelf of tissue attached to the underside of the umbrella in a hydrozoan mesusa. It functions in locomotion.
Industry:Natural environment
A free-swimming, planktonic larval stage of many crustaceans.
Industry:Natural environment
A membrane-bound organelle in plant cells that functions in storage (of food or pigments) or food production. Chloroplasts contain the pigments for photosynthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A reef composed of vermetid gastropods (a family of marine snails) built on some substrate such as coralline algae or bivalve shells. These filter-feeding shelled snails, called worm-shells, are gregarious colonial animals which develop massive structures. A vermetid reef may be seen in southwestern Florida, south of Fort Meyers in the Ten Thousand Islands area.
Industry:Natural environment
A substance or physical agent that stimulates transcription of a specific gene or operon.
Industry:Natural environment
Chemical substances of mineral origin which contain no organically produced carbon.
Industry:Natural environment
In a parasite's life cycle, it is the host organism in which the parasite reproduces sexually.
Industry:Natural environment
Incomplete cleavage of the zygote, restricted to the blastodisc, the non-yolky cytoplasm at one end of the egg; typical of teloblastic eggs.
Industry:Natural environment
