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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
Industry:Natural environment
A greenish iron-containing respiratory pigment dissolved in the blood plasma of certain marine polychaete worms. It may give the green color to the blood of these worms.
Industry:Natural environment
A molting hormone of arthropods. It stimulates growth and ecdysis (molting).
Industry:Natural environment
A sample in which each individual in a population has the same chance of being selected as any other.
Industry:Natural environment
A system of nested hierarchical categories used to efficiently store information about biological diversity.
Industry:Natural environment
An analgesic drug made from the venom of a species of cone shell snail, Conus magus. The particular anagesic substance in the venom is a conopeptide, one of the first pharmaceuticals that demonstrate the promise of "drugs from the sea".
Industry:Natural environment
An organism, usually a fish, that takes its food from the air/water interface, or feeds just below the water surface, e.g., a needlefish.
Industry:Natural environment
In ethology or animal behavior, an innate system within an animal that responds to a stimulus in the environment to produce a genetic stereotyped behavior; a stimulus-response mechanism.
Industry:Natural environment
