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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A device that receives electromagnetic radiation and converts it into a signal that can be recorded and displayed as numerical data or as an image.
Industry:Natural environment
A layer of calcium carbonate that grows outside corallite walls.
Industry:Natural environment
A periodic environmental signal that entrains a biological rhythm. For example, a cycle for a circadian rhythm, but may also be a temperature or even social cycle.
Industry:Natural environment
A troughlike depression with vertical to overhanging walls which cut across the reef front at right angles.
Industry:Natural environment
An elongated tubular organ of varying use and form, usually associated with the oral region of many invertebrates.
Industry:Natural environment
Energy that travels through space in the form of waves. The highest frequencies in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation are gamma-rays; the lowest frequencies are radio waves. All electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light. Shorter wavelength radiation (eg, ultraviolet) carries more energy and is likely to be more harmful to living tissue.
Industry:Natural environment
In sponges, an endopinacocyte lining an incurrent canal.
Industry:Natural environment
Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks.
Industry:Natural environment
Reproduction without fertilization; the development of an unfertilized ovum, seed, or spore. It occurs naturally in several species and may also be induced artificially by chemical or mechanical means.
Industry:Natural environment
