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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A molecule consisting of calcium, carbon and oxygen secreted by corals to their skeleton. It is also secreted by mollusks to form their protective shells.
Industry:Natural environment
A root-like structure for attachment that anchors attached seaweeds and other algae to the substratum.
Industry:Natural environment
An alarm response in some fishes as a result of an alarm substance (schreckstoff), or alarm pheromone being introduced into the water via rupture of specialized dermal club cells. Presumably a fish attacked by a predator releases schreckstoff into the water, resulting in the conspecifics making a variety of coordinated escape or fright actions.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism which possesses a mixture of male and female characteristics.
Industry:Natural environment
Contracted at short, regular intervals like a string of beads; bead-like.
Industry:Natural environment
In diving, the degree to which a gas is dissolved in the blood or other tissues. Full saturation occurs when the pressure of gas dissolved in the blood or tissues is the same as the ambient pressure of that gas.
Industry:Natural environment
Photosynthetic aquatic bacteria, often called blue-green algae, but have no relationship to algae. Cyanobacteria get their name from the bluish pigment phycocyanin, which they use to capture light for photosynthesis. They also contain chlorophyll a, the same photosynthetic pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants. Not all "blue-green" bacteria are blue; some common forms are red or pink, resulting from the pigment phycoerythrin.
Industry:Natural environment
