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Terms

Clonal: offspring that are genetically identical to their parents, produced through asexual reproduction

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Copepodid: free-swimming larval stage of copepods

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Corona: crown-like portion at the top of a rotifer that contains cilia

 

Eutrophic: when nutrients in the water become overly abundant, causing a lack of oxygen present and an excess of aquatic plants and phytoplankton

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Morphological: an organism's form and structure

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Nauplii: the first larval stage of copepods

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Photosynthesis: sugars produced in cells with chlorophyll using carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight, with oxygen as a byproduct 

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Prokaryote: single-cell organisms

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Veliger: The larval state of a mollusk with a developed membrane

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