Natural environment

Natural environment

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

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sagittal

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Relating to the sagittal plane, which extends through the midline of a bilateral animal, dividing it into two equal halves.

development

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The chronological series of changes, from a lower to a higher state of organization, which multicellular organisms undergo from the fertilized egg (zygote) to maturity.

anabolism

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The metabolic processes that consumes energy and involve the synthesis of larger, complex molecules from simpler ones.

saturation diving

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The situation where a diver is at a depth or pressure for a long enough period of time (12 hours or longer) to have the partial pressures of the dissolved gases in the body at ...

visible wavelengths

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Wavelengths approximately 400 to 700 nm.

hemocyanin

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A bluish, copper-containing respiratory pigment with an oxygen-carrying function similar to that of hemoglobin that is present in the blood of certain mollusks and arthropods.

chloroplast

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A disk-like organelle with a double membrane, found in some protists and all green plant cells, that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.