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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A transformation which occurs on a worldwide scale (for example, an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere) or exhibits sufficient cumulative effects to have worldwide impact (for example, local species extinction resulting in global loss of biodiversity).
Industry:Natural environment
An egg mass protected by a surrounding tough covering or a hard foam-like protein covering. Oothecae are made by many insect species and mollusks; an egg case.
Industry:Natural environment
Relatively minor change in the composition of a species' gene pool over time.
Industry:Natural environment
The circulating and tissue-bathing fluid of the arthropod open circulatory system. It is composed of cells and plasma and often loosely termed as blood.
Industry:Natural environment
The middle of the three germ layers of a triploblastic embryo that gives rise to the skeletal and support, muscular, blood vascular, urogenital and reproductive systems, and contributions to some glands.
Industry:Natural environment
The size of a genome (all the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism) is generally given as its total number of base pairs.
Industry:Natural environment
