Natural environment

Natural environment

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

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avicularium

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A small bryozoan heterozooid in which the zooecium and operculum form a beak-like, snapping structure that deters small predators.

dispersant

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A toxic liquid used to place oil in suspension in the water mass and promote its dispersal in order to accelerate break down by the environmen,t including bacterial decomposition. ...

plasmid

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An autonomous (self-replicating) circular piece of DNA found outside the chromosome in bacteria. Plasmids carry information that give the bacteria resistance to antibiotics. They ...

stoma

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Any of various small openings or pores in an animal body, especially an opening resembling a mouth in many invertebrates; also a minute pore in the epidermis of the leaf or stem ...

infrared radiation (IR)

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Earth-emitted radiation over thermal wavelengths: 3-15 micrometers. Used for satellite remote sensing because it can be used to monitor weather and oceanographic conditions 24 ...

species

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In sexually reproducing organisms, a species is a group of genetically related organisms, usually similar in physical appearance, that actually or potentially interbreed and are ...