plankton

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English - Turkish
{i} suya asılı yaşayan mikroskobik deniz canlıları
plankton
(Tıp) Denizlerde ve göllerde yaşayan mikroskopik canlı kolonileri (tek hücreli)

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planktonic
planktonik
Turkish - Turkish
Havuz, göl, akarsu, deniz, okyanus gibi sulara ait ekosistemlerin herhangi bir derinliğindeki su tabakalarında, hayvan ve bitkilerden oluşan mikroskobik büyüklükteki organizmalar
Denizlerde yaşayan mikroskopik canlılar
Sularda bulunan, ancak mikroskopla görülebilen yaratıklar topluluğu
Denizde bulunan, hareket yeteneği akıntıya bağlı mikroskobik boyutta ve tek hücreli canlılar
English - English
a generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea. A single organism is known as a plankter
Minute plant (phytoplankton) and animal organisms (zooplankton) that are found in aquatic ecosystems
Aquatic organisms that drift, or swim weakly
A term used to refer to both phytoplankton and zooplankton
plant and animal organisms, generally microscopic, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
the passively floating or weakly motile aquatic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton)
Tiny, free-floating organisms of the ocean or other aquatic systems They may be phytoplankton or zooplankton
Small (usually less than 2mm long) floating or drifting life forms in water bodies Plankton includes both plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) that are carried passively in the water currents Those that can swim do so to change or adjust their depth in the water, not to move from place to place Plankton is one of the 3 main divisions of aquatic life The others being "nekton" (the animals that swim actively and may move long distances for feeding or breeding) and the "benthos" (organisms which crawl about on the bottom, or burrow into the bottom or grow attached to the bottom)
Passively floating or weakly motile aquatic plants (phytoplankton ) and animals (zooplankton) (Source: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, 1990)
organisms that swim or float in water
(Greek verb: planktos= to wander or drift) The passively floating or weakly swimming animal and plant life in either fresh or marine waters Many plankton reproduce daily, some hourly, and some every 10 minutes when the temperature is optimal (often close to 0°C), and when essential nutrients and foods are present
All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters
Small plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) that are suspended in the water and either drift with the currents or swim weakly
Microscopic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) which many fish feed upon early in their lives Some lake trout populations feed upon plankton for their entire lives and are said to be planktivorous
Floating or weakly swimming aquatic plants and animals that live in the open water of lakes and rivers, and that form the base of the ocean food chain
microscopic plant life found in natural bodies of water
Free-swimming (as opposed to rooted/stationary) microscopic plants (phytoplankton) or animals (zooplankton) that live in water; they can be larval forms of other animals such as fish or crustaceans, or adult forms of plants and animals
floating, drifting or slowly swimming organisms that cannot swim against currents - floating and drifting organisms that have limited swimming abilities and that are carried largely passively with water currents (opp nekton) These include bacteria (bacterioplankton), plants and plant-like organisms (phytoplankton) and the animals (zooplankton) that eat them
Organisms that float through the water column, not attached to any substrate and unable to move against currents
1) Small, usually microscopic, plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) in aquatic systems 2) All of the smaller floating, suspended or self-propelled organisms in a body of water
Free-floating plants or animals
{i} microscopic organisms which live in water and serve as a basic food source for aquatic animals
Microscopic plant and animal life
The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or fresh water
The collective term for all organisms (plant, bacteria and animal) which drift passively, or are unable to move against prevailing currents The plankton includes four groups primary producers (e g the phytoplankton), primary consumers (i e those which consume the primary producers), secondary consumers (i e those which consume the primary consumers and sometimes also the primary producers) and the decomposers (those which use dead tissue of other organisms for their nutrients) See also zooplankton, nekton
Passively floating or weakly swimming plant and animal life in either fresh or marine waters From the Greek, planktos (planktos), "to wander or drift "
Plankton is a mass of tiny animals and plants that live in the surface layer of the sea. its usual diet of plankton and other small organisms. the very small forms of plant and animal life that live in water, especially the sea, and are eaten by fish (from planktos , from plazesthai ). Marine and freshwater organisms that, because they are unable to move or are too small or too weak to swim against water currents, exist in a drifting, floating state. Plankton is the productive base of both marine and freshwater ecosystems, providing food for larger animals and indirectly for humans, whose fisheries depend on plankton. As a human resource, plankton has only begun to be developed and used. The plantlike community of plankton is called phytoplankton, and the animal-like community is called zooplankton, but many planktonic organisms are better described as protists. Most phytoplankton serves as food for zooplankton, but some of it is carried below the light zone. Zooplankton is used directly as food by fish (including herring) or mammals (including whales), but several links on the food chain usually have been passed before plankton is available for human consumption
microscopic floating plant and animal organisms of lakes, rivers, and oceans
various small to microscopic organisms that are carried along by the currents
a generic term for all the microorganisms that float in the sea

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plant plankton
A plant plankton, also known as phytoplankton is single-celled photosynthetic organisms which manufacture food using energy from sunlight
planktonic
Floating in the open sea rather than living on the seafloor
planktonic
{s} of plankton (microscopic organisms which live in water and serve as a basic food source for aquatic animals)
planktonic
of or relating to plankton
Turkish - English
plankton

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bitkisel plankton
(Çevre) phytoplankton
plankton

    Hyphenation

    plank·ton

    Turkish pronunciation

    plängktın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈplaɴɢktən/ /ˈplæŋktən/

    Etymology

    [ 'pla[ng](k)-t&n, -"tä ] (noun.) 1891. From the Greek adjective πλαγκτός ("wanderer" and "drifter").
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