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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The major photosynthetic pigment found in all oxygen-evolving photosynthetic organisms (higher plants, and red and green algae).
Industry:Natural environment
The sequence of DNA or RNA located between the start-code sequence (initiation codon) and the stop-code sequence (termination codon).
Industry:Natural environment
Uptake of material into a cell by the formation of a membrane-bound vesicle.
Industry:Natural environment
A cylindrical sample, obtained with a hollow drill, extracted from, inter alia, a seabed, lake bottom, or coral to investigate the composition and depths of layers.
Industry:Natural environment
A laboratory setup in which organisms are held in continuously flowing water, in contrast to static exposure, in which organisms are held in a given volume of water with no exchange .
Industry:Natural environment
A nucleotide sequence (of DNA or RNA) in a gene that codes for part or all of the gene product or for some control function. In eukaryotes, exons are separated by non-coding sequences called introns; that part of the gene (a section of DNA) that is transcribed into messenger RNA and encodes a protein.
Industry:Natural environment
A situation where crossing two inbred lines yields offspring that are more healthy/vigorous than their parents; hybrid vigor.
Industry:Natural environment
A thin squamous epithelial layer of cells in stony (hard) corals which deposits the white calcium carbonate skeleton.
Industry:Natural environment
An assemblage of ecotypes which are separated by incomplete sterility barriers.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of about 25 species of medium-sized, long-winged seabirds in the family Procellariidae. Those in the genus Procellaria are usually called 'petrel'.
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