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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aquatic | organisms, habitats, or processes related to water, defining plants and animals that live in or near freshwater (lakes, rivers) or marine (oceans, seas) environments. |
| Sequester | to isolate, set apart, or hide away someone or something, often for privacy, safety, or legal reasons. |
| Indefinitely | a process—such as growth, cell division, or lifespan—that continues for an unlimited, unspecified, or non-terminal amount of time. |
| Secrete | for a cell, gland, or organ to actively produce and release a specific substance—such as hormones, enzymes, sweat, or saliva—to perform a functional role within the body or to be excreted. |
| Dilute | mixture with a low concentration of solute (the substance being dissolved) relative to the solvent |
| Constraint | limitations or restrictions on the phenotypic variability, evolution, or development of organisms, resulting from genetic, developmental, or physical factors. |
| Criterion | standards, rules, or benchmarks used to evaluate, classify, or measure living systems and biological processes. |
| Carrying capacity | the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustainably support over time without degrading the habitat. |
| Correlation | a statistical measure indicating the strength and direction of a relationship between two biological variables. |
| Causation | the direct cause-and-effect relationship where an initial event, exposure, or mechanism (the cause) leads to a specific, observable biological outcome or change in an organism. |
| Aesthetic | the study of sensory perception and preference |
| Finite | systems, populations, or cellular processes with limited, measurable boundaries rather than infinite, continuous ones. |
| Resilient | the capacity of living systems—ranging from molecules and cells to organisms and ecosystems—to resist, absorb, accommodate, or recover from disturbances, stressors, or perturbations. |
| overexploitation | the excessive harvesting of natural resources—such as fish, wildlife, or forests—at a faster rate than they can naturally replenish. |
| biosphere | the organisms in the air, on land, and in the water |
| geosphere | The Earth |
| hydrosphere | Water |
| atmosphere | Air |
| conserve | segments of DNA, RNA, or protein that remain largely identical or similar across different species (orthologous) or within a genome (paralogous) over evolutionary time. |