microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
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microscopic organisms found in plankton
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photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.unicellular algae, one of four families of Charophyte green algae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.plankton that inhabit rivers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
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(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasiti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, organisms, found, plankton.extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpo…
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