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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A discreet, in-between moult stage, during the metamorphosis of an arthropod from larva to adult.
Industry:Natural environment
A lens-shaped fatty deposit lying in the facial depression of many toothed whales, such as the bottle-nosed dolphin. It appears as the bulging forehead just in front of the blowhole. It contains fatty deposits, muscles, and nasal air sacs and passages. The melon is used in focusing a whale's sounds, functioning as an acoustical lens for echolocation.The fatty deposits change shape as the whale is producing sounds.
Industry:Natural environment
A photosynthetic pigment which absorbs light and transfers energy to chlorophylls during photosynthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A small, low coastal island or emergent reef of sand or coral; flat mound of sand and admixed coral fragments built upon a reef flat or just above high tide level. A synonym of key, as in the Florida Keys.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of asexual reproduction where daughter corallites grow from the inside wall of parent corallites, usually by division of the parent corallite.
Industry:Natural environment
Existing in a wild or untamed state.The term is often used to describe an animal which has reverted to such a state from domestication. An example of the latter is a once farmed fish, or the progeny of a farmed fish, which is living (but not necessarily breeding) in a wild state.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics, the hypothesis that is adopted when the null hypothesis is rejected.
Industry:Natural environment
The comprehensive analysis of all the genes of an organism; molecular characterization of all the genes and gene products of a species, including the study of gene sequences, gene mapping, and gene function; genomics usually involves high speed sequencing of the DNA and computer searches for sequences that code for genes. Genomics allow researchers to identify specific genes responsible for specific proteins with specific functions in an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The movement or incorporation of genes from one population into another through hybridization followed by backcrossing. Usually refers to movement of genes from one species to another or among sub-species that have been geographically isolated then brought back together by changes in the species ranges or planting of exotic populations.
Industry:Natural environment
The specification of a peptide sequence by the code contained in DNA molecules.
Industry:Natural environment
