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adductor | A muscle that draws a body part, such as a finger, an arm, or a toe, inward toward the median axis of the body or of an extremity. |
antnnae | one of the jointed, movable, sensory appendages occurring in pairs on the heads of insects and most other arthropods. |
appendages | any member of the body diverging from the axial trunk. |
asexually | having no sex or sexual organs. Independent of sexual processes, especially not involving the union of male and female germ cells. |
assimilation | the total process of plant nutrition, including photosynthesis and the absorption of raw materials |
bivalve | any mollusk, as the oyster, clam, scallop, or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having two shells hinged together, a soft body, and lamellate gills |
bloom | the flower of a plant. |
calcareous | calcium carbonate; chalky: calcareous earth. |
carnivores | an animal that eats flesh. |
chlorophyll | the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a), and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 (chlorophyll b). |
decapods | any crustacean of the order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking legs, including the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, prawns, and shrimps. |
diffusion | act of diffusing; state of being diffused. |
ectothermic | a cold-blooded animal |
fusiform | spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots. |
gametes | a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism |
gastropods | any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc. |
herbivores | a herbivorous animal. |
homocercal | having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes. |
incubation | the act or process of incubating. |
inorganic | not having the structure or organization characteristic of living bodies. |
macrophytes | a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye. |
mantle | a single or paired outgrowth of the body wall that lines the inner surface of the valves of the shell in mollusks and brachiopods. |
molting | (of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth. |
omnivores | someone or something that is omnivorous. |
phycocolloids | phycocolloids |
phytoplantion | phytoplantion |
ploysccharide | ploysaccharide |
protandrous | protandrous |
regeneration | regeneration |
rotifers | rotifers |
semipermeable | semipermeable |
siphon | siphon |
spores | spores |
terrestrial | terrestrial |
zooplankton | zooplankton |
zygote | zygote |