20 Terms
Contributors in Ecology
Ecology
Free market
Biology; Ecology
An economic system in which the wealthiest players are free to make as much money as they can regardless of consequences or catastrophes.
Stress proteins
Biology; Ecology
Proteins produced in response to environmental stress. Some of them ward off the hypothermia brought by extreme cold, for example.
Chloroplast
Biology; Ecology
A cell organelle, once a free bacterium, that holds chlorophyll. Symbiotic with mitochondria, as shown by biologist Lynn Margulis.
Ocean floor
Biology; Ecology
The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 metres below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
