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Contributors in Marine biology
Marine biology
Pelagic
Biology; Marine biology
Refers to the plants and animals that live in the water column or in the open waters of the ocean rather than the ocean floor (see benthic). Life is found throughout the pelagic zone, however is more ...
Bottom-up control
Biology; Marine biology
Refers to food webs. A control of a population that comes from change lower in a food web (e.g., control of a population of mussels by abundance of phytoplankton food).
Foraminifera
Biology; Marine biology
Protozoan group, individuals of which usually secrete a calcareous test; both planktonic and benthic representatives.
Genetic polymorphism
Biology; Marine biology
Presence of several genetically controlled variants in a population.
Demographic
Biology; Marine biology
Referring to numerical characteristics of a population (e.g., population size, age structure).
Monophyletic
Biology; Marine biology
Refers to a group of species that all have a single common ancestral species.
Homozygote
Biology; Marine biology
With respect to a given genetic locus, a diploid individual carrying two identical alleles.
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