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- nemathecium - wart-like structure bearing reproductive parts
- nanoplankton - plankton from 2 to 20 microns in diameter that would
pass through the mesh of a normal plankton net
- nematocyst - complex ejectile organellee produced in a new dinoflagellate
genera
- neritic - living in coastal ocean waters
- neuston - organisms that live at the ocean-atmosphere interface
- nitrogen-fixation - incorporation of atmospheric nitrogen as a nitrogen
source in the cells of certain bacteria and Cyanobacteria
- node - site on an axis from which leaves or branches arise
- nutritive cell - specific cell of carpogonial branch with which carpogonium
fuses after fertilization in some red algae of the order Cryptonemiales
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O
- obtuse - blunt or rounded at the end
- oogamy - union of gametes in which a sperm fertilizes a relatively
large, non-motile egg
- oogonium - female
reproductive cell containing one or more female gametes or eggs
- oligotrophic - nutrient-deficient
- order - the taxonomic grouping between class and family
- organelle - specialized structure in a cell, like a plastid or nucleus
- ostiole - opening in conceptacle or cystocarp through which spores
or gametes can escape
- ovoid - egg-shaped
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Last updated: Jan. 06, 2005
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