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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The stage of early growth and differentiation of tissues and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems of a multicellular organism, from fertilization until birth or hatching. In seed plants, it is the young sporophyte that resulted from the union of the egg and one of the two tube nuclei.
Industry:Natural environment
A deposit of calcium salts made in the stomach of many crustaceans during the period between molts. It may be used to store calcium needed in the new exoskeleton.
Industry:Natural environment
A particular physical, chemical, or biological property that is being measured.
Industry:Natural environment
A small Java program that can be embedded in a web page to create special effects. Applets differ from full-fledged Java code. They are not allowed to access certain resources on the local computer such as files and serial devices, and are prohibited from communicating with most other computers across a network.
Industry:Natural environment
A toxin, discharged with mucus into the water, by trunkfishes of the genus Ostracion when they are stressed .
Industry:Natural environment
An egg case of a shark or ray, usually oblong in shape with horns or tendrils.
Industry:Natural environment
Any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue, or loss of function of a part.
Industry:Natural environment
