Natural environment

Natural environment

Related to any physical feature of the earth's natural environment.

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bond

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A physicochemical association between atoms.

microhabitat

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A smaller part of a habitat that has some internal interactions allowing it to function self-sufficiently within a generally larger habitat, such as a patch reef in a lagoon.

homing behavior

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A type of behavior where the adult organism returns to its place of origin.

protease

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An enzyme that hydrolyzes proteins, cleaving the peptide bonds that link amino acids in protein molecules.

goby

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Any species of bony spiny-rayed fishes in the family gobiidae. Gobies are small fishes with large heads and elongated tapering bodies. They comprise the largest family of marine ...

tube feet

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Extensions of the water-vascular system of echinoderms, protruding from the body and often ending in suckers. They may be used for locomotion and/or for maintaining a tight grip ...

degrees of freedom

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In statistics, the number of independent comparisons that can be made between the members of a sample; in a contingency table it is one less than the number of row categories ...