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bioluminescent

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of living organisms) emitting light
    fireflies are bioluminescent

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  • Exactly 56 minutes after sunset, in the shallows around the Island, the females come to the surface and while swimming in circles, emit their eggs in green bioluminescent clouds.
  • Deep sea fish have organs called photophores which create a center for the bioluminescent reactions.
  • In February 1965, I went to New Zealand to study two kinds of bioluminescent organisms: the cave worm Arachnocampa and the freshwater limpet Latia. Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography
  • Studies of the bioluminescent mechanisms of jellyfish to date have focused primarily one species , Aequorea victoria.
  • Its tiny "bioluminescent" body part is lodged permanently within its shell, but the shell amplifies the light, and the faint glow it produces illuminates the whole shell surface. BBC News - Home
  • Next, they engineered the stem cells within the capsules to produce luciferase, the same bioluminescent chemical produced by fireflies, which is highly visible under bioluminescence imaging. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • This procedure has allowed us to achieve sensitivity levels near those attained by bioluminescent methods in spectrophotometric assays.
  • Oceans  Shallow ocean waters (euphotic zone) contain a greater concentration of organisms than the rest of the sea  Phytoplankton (algae) is food not only for zooplankton (protozoans and microscopic animals) but also for small fishes  Coral reefs - areas of biological abundance just below the surface in shallow, warm, tropical waters  Chief constituents are stony corals, animals that have a calcium carbonate (limestone) exoskeleton, and calcareous red and green algae  Most of the ocean lies within the pelagic zone  Epipelagic zone lacks the inorganic nutrients of shallow waters, and therefore it does not have as high a concentration of phytoplankton  Animals in the deeper waters of the mesopelagic zone are carnivores, which are adapted to the absence of light,  Waters of the bathypelagic zone are in complete darkness except for an occasional flash of bioluminescent light  Abyssal plain - many invertebrates survive there by feeding on debris floating down from the mesopelagic zone Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • If the source is a bioluminescent searchlight, the ideal reflectance depends on the irradiance of the bioluminescence striking the organism relative to the background radiance.
  • Then the bioluminescent lights flickered on and Damian was blinded by the sudden flash of light.
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