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When a coral egg and sperm join together as an embryo, they develop into a coral larva, called a planula. Planulae float in the ocean, some for days and some for weeks, before dropping to the ocean floor. Then, depending on seafloor conditions, the planulae may attach to the substrate and grow into a new coral colony at the slow rate of about .4 inches a year.
Pre-Greek is a substrate language hypothesized to explain certain Greek words of non-Indo-European origin.
Aramaic features an Akkadian substrate.
Ziri bought some substrate for his tortoise's enclosure.
Ziri changed the substrate of his cat's litter.
Ziri uses unscented substrate for his cat's litter.
Ziri put scented substrate in his cat's litter.
“There’s no real reason why the therapy can’t work on other cancers,” said Bell, adding that cancer provides the “perfect substrate” for viruses because they’re metabolically active, fast growing and, “don’t know how to turn off.”
Yiddish is a High German dialect with a heavy Hebrew and Aramaic substrate, along with loanwords from Slavic and other European languages.
The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.
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Stream substrate affects fish longevity.
The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.
This definition [of "tool"] is not simple, but contains several elements. The tool must not be part of the animal's body (a beak is not a tool); the user must manipulate the tool in some way for it to realise its function; and, finally, a tool cannot be attached to the substrate. This is a fairly clear definition, but does seem to produce some rather arbitrary distinctions (Hansell 1987b). The spider Dinopis, for example, makes a small web which it holds in its legs, thrusting it down on passing ants. This is a tool, but all other webs, however complex, are not since they are anchored to the substrate. The woodpecker finch […] that uses a fine stick held in the beak to extract insect prey from wood, is a tool user, but a shrike […] that impales an insect on a thorn still attached to the bush is not.
Detach/subtract [tasks involve] Severing a fixed attachment between environmental objects (or the substrate) or removing object(s) from another unattached object, so the latter is a more useful tool.
Amphisteginids and peneroplids were among the few taxa found in the bay environments, probably due to their preferences for phytal substrates and tolerance to moderate levels of eutrophication.
The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.
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