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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The field of biology concerned with the timing of biological events, especially repetitive or cyclic phenomena in individual organisms.
Industry:Natural environment
A gelatinous material secreted by specialized mucous cells. In corals, it functions in protection from bacterial invasion, food capture, and removal of sediment particles. Mucus is usually moved by cilia (motile hair-like extensions of the cell membrane).
Industry:Natural environment
The wearing away of the land surface naturally by wind or water, but is often intensified by human's land-clearing practices. The runoff is harmful to coral reefs .
Industry:Natural environment
A relation between a variable and one or more related variables.
Industry:Natural environment
Coarse sediment typically found in areas exposed to currents and wave energy.
Industry:Natural environment
The final stage in ecological succession that is able to persist in the absence of environmental change.
Industry:Natural environment
The process where a spermatozoan (sperm cell) penetrates the cell membrane of an egg cell and the nuclei of the sperm and egg cells join together and their chromosomes combine to form a diploid zygote.
Industry:Natural environment
The whole range of information resources available through computer networks.
Industry:Natural environment
A relationship between two species of organisms in which both members benefit from the association (mutualism), or where only one member benefits but the other is not harmed (commensalism), or where one member benefits at the expense of the well-being of the other (parasitism).
Industry:Natural environment
