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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In a vertebrate skeleton, the skull, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum.
Industry:Natural environment
Index based on the strength and duration of local hotspots to monitor bleaching events.
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The extensive spaces of an arthropod's body through which the hemolymph (blood) circulates.
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The process of determining the amino acid sequence of a protein, or its component polypeptides.
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The vertical zone in the ocean extending from the surface to that depth permitting photosynthetic activity.
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Polaris, the North Star, is visible in the northern hemisphere and indicates the direction of north. In the southern hemisphere the Southern Cross is used to find the direction of south.
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A circulatory system, characteristic of some invertebrates, e.g., arthropods, in which blood flows through an interconnected system of open sinuses rather than blood vessels. The tissues and cells are directly bathed by the blood for gaseous exchange and nutrient uptake. The circulatory fluid is called the hemolymph.
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A fully developed and sexually mature animal, physically capable of reproducing under appropriate physiological, ecological and sociobiological conditions.
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