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Weddell Seals Employ Which Behavior(s) in Order to Reduce Metabolic

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Weddell seals employ which behavior(s) in order to reduce metabolic costs during a dive?


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Erosion

The process by which natural forces remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location and transport it to another.

Phytoremediation

The use of plants to remove, detoxify, or immobilize environmental contaminants in soil or water through natural processes.

Translocation

In genetics, structural rearrangement in which a broken piece of chromosome has become reattached in the wrong location. In plants, movement of organic compounds through phloem.

Casparian Strip

Waxy band between the plasma membranes of abutting root endodermal cells; forms a seal that prevents soil water from seeping through cell walls into the vascular cylinder.

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