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Natural environment

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

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aneuploidy

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The condition of having an abnormal number of chromosomes; a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number.

double helix

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The normal structural configuration of DNA consisting of two helices winding about the same axis. The structure of DNA was first proposed by Watson and Crick (1953) with two ...

early life history

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The stages from egg to juvenile in fish development.

sinkhole

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A depression formed in an area either by dissolving of the surface limestone or by collapse of underlying cavities.

gyre

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A large water-circulation system of geostrophic currents rotating clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere or counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

firth

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A partly land-locked arm of the sea.

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