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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The pharynx in anthozoans; foregut of higher animals; the anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.
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The tendency of a sample to exclude some members of the sampling universe and over-represent others.
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The growth of a population is limited by the resource in shortest supply. Also known as 'Liebig's Law'.
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A fingerlike projection from a gill arch through which respiratory gases enter and leave the blood.
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A male or female that is the result of sex change. A secondary male would be derived from a protogynous female, while a secondary female would be derived from a protandrous male.
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A square or rectangular sampling unit of known area (e.g.,1 m2) within which organisms are counted or measured. Quadrats can be used to estimate the percent cover of each species or other reef components and obtain information about density, abundance, colony size, and biodiversity.
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A virus that attacks and infects bacterial cells. Phages consist of a protein coat enclosing the genetic material, DNA or RNA, that is injected into the bacterium. Upon infection, synthesis of host DNA, RNA and proteins ceases and the phage genome is used to direct the synthesis of phage nucleic acids and proteins using the host's transcriptional and translational apparatus.
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In taxonomy, classification which stresses grouping together taxa in a similar stage of evolution, rather than location on the same phyletic line.
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One of two distinct evolutionary lines of coelomates, consisting of the echinoderms and chordates and characterised by radial cleavage of the early embryo. The cleaving cells are indeterminate (if early embryonic cells are separated, each one develops into a complete organism). The anus develops from the blastopore.
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The dispersal of plant seeds or spores by animals. Endozoochory is zoochory within the animal's body. Exozoochory is zoochory where the seeds are attached to the outside of the animal's body.
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