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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A scientific instrument system designed for temporary deployment on the sea floor in order to monitor environmental parameters. It is an unmanned vehicle that falls to the seafloor unattached to a cable, and then operates autonomously on the bottom. At t.
Industry:Natural environment
A system that exchanges energy and matter with its environment.
Industry:Natural environment
An anemone of the family Zoanthidae, usually found in intertidal areas and coral reefs . In some species the polyps separate from each other almost completely after budding, while in other species, the polyps are all interconnected by a common mat of tissue.
Industry:Natural environment
An oxidizing enzyme found in mitochondria of cells. It contains iron and a porphyrin and is important in cellular respiration as an agent of electron transfer from certain cytochrome molecules to oxygen molecules. Cytochrome c is a highly conserved protein found in plants, animals, and many unicellular organisms. This, along with its small size, makes it useful in studies of evolutionary divergence.
Industry:Natural environment
In evolution, an advanced trait which only appears in some members of a taxonomic group. For example,a derived character for some mammals would be the loss of the tail, which occurs in the great apes and man. Another derived character is the presence of feathers in birds. Scales are the ancestral feature. Derived characters are also called apomorphies .
Industry:Natural environment
Postnaupliar larva of crustaceans with the same general body and limb morphology as the nauplius, but having additional appendages.
Industry:Natural environment
The amount of radiation or energy received from the sun at any given point.
Industry:Natural environment
