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As I write these posts, I try to avoid using too much incomprehensible scientific jargon. However, jargon exists for a reason, and as we get more in-depth through time, I will introduce a number of terms that I find particularly useful or interesting.\u00a0When I put a term in bold<\/strong> lettering, I have put its definition in hover-text. That is, if you want to know what it means, just place your cursor over it and wait. Test this phrase<\/strong>. But I’m starting to realize that: (A) This escaped the notice of many people, and (B) It’d be nice to collect all these terms in one place.\u00a0So here’s a glossary.\u00a0I’m also including terms that I’ve explicitly defined in my posts. If there are any words that you think belong here or that I should add a hover-definition to, let me know.<\/p>\n

calyx (pl. calyces)<\/p>\n

clade –\u00a0A group\u00a0of organisms that are more related to one another than to any other organism<\/p>\n

cnida (pl. cnidae)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

cnidarian<\/p>\n

congeneric<\/p>\n

confounding factor<\/p>\n

coral bleaching<\/p>\n

corallite – Skeletal structures formed by individual coral polyps.<\/p>\n

corallivore –\u00a0Animals that eat coral<\/p>\n

ecosystem engineer –\u00a0An organism that drastically modifies its surrounding physical habitat<\/p>\n

holobiont –\u00a0Not a cult group, alien invader, or indie band, but the collective term for a host organism and its associated microbial community, or microbiome<\/p>\n

hypothesis – An idea about how things work, which is based on previous observations and that can be tested after making more observations. After many more observations are made that support a given hypothesis, it generally becomes accepted as a theory.<\/p>\n

macrobe – Not really an accepted word, but it’s meant to be the complement\u00a0of ‘microbe’. Whereas microbes are tiny organisms, macrobes would include us and all other\u00a0macroscopic forms of life.<\/p>\n

microbiome<\/p>\n

nematocyst<\/p>\n

pathogen –\u00a0Disease-causing microorganisms, including various bacteria, viruses, and fungi.<\/p>\n

photosynthesis<\/p>\n

phylum –\u00a0The largest grouping of animal types. Other phyla include Chordata, which contains all the familiar fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals; and Arthropoda, which includes all insects, arachnids, and crustaceans, from beetles to spiders to lobsters. Cnidaria is thus a very large grouping.<\/p>\n

polyp – A coral ‘individual’, which is structurally similar to a single anemone. Many coral polyps are fused together in a colony<\/p>\n

sub-cellular\u00a0–\u00a0A structure that is smaller than a cell, most often referring to part\u00a0of<\/em> a cell.<\/p>\n

symbiont<\/p>\n

symbiosis –\u00a0A close association between organisms that involves frequent physical contact and the nearly complete dependency of at least one partner on the other<\/p>\n

vector –\u00a0Organisms that host and transmit pathogens to other species<\/p>\n

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