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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A lowland along a riverbank, lake, and coastline which is subjected to periodic inundation.
Industry:Natural environment
A specific set of physical, biological, and chemical factors immediately surrounding the organism.
Industry:Natural environment
A very fine sand made up of tiny egg-shaped oolites. Oolites form in Baffin Bay (Texas), the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the waters surrounding the Bahamas, and in Great Salt lake. Oolites are often used in the home aquarium industry because their small grain size .
Industry:Natural environment
An innate behavioral response to a directional stimulus (a stimulus from a particular direction) whereby the organism either moves toward (positive taxis) or away (negative taxis) from the stimulus.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, any name which has not been printed and circulated to meet the criteria of publication as stated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
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One of the structural components, or building blocks, of DNA and RNA. A nucleotide consists of a base (one of four nitrogenous bases: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine) plus a molecule of sugar and one of phosphoric acid.
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Siphonophores are "colonial jellyfish" which have swimming bells at the top, and tentacles with stinging cells below that help them to catch their prey. Each individual of the colony is specialized for a different function, such as swimming, feeding and reproduction. Some siphonophores can be more than 10 meters long. They are in the phylum Cnidaria, class Hydrozoa and order Siphonophora.
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