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CIST:605 Organisms of the Deep Sea

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  • General Terms: deep sea/deep-sea, organisms, animals, ecosystem, habitat, evolution, diversity
  • Fields of research: Marine biology, oceanography, biochemistry, ecology
  • Ocean zones: Sunlit zone (epipelagic), twilight zone (mesopelagic), midnight zone (bathypelagic), abyssal zone (abyssopelagic), hadal zone (trenches)
  • Food systems: Chemosynthesis, photosynthesis, marine snow, carnivores, detritivores, filter feeders