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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The principle that when the populations of two species compete for resources, one will use the resources more efficiently, therefore outcompete and eventually eliminate the other population.
Industry:Natural environment
The unit of speed used in navigation that is equal to 1 nautical mile (6,076.115 ft or 1,852 m) per hour.
Industry:Natural environment
The second period of the Cenozoic era containing the Pleistocene epoch and the Holocene epoch, and dating from 1.8 million years to the present.
Industry:Natural environment
A chemical substance, required in trace concentrations, which acts as a cofactor with an enzyme in catalysing a biochemical reaction.
Industry:Natural environment
A form of reproductive isolation in which two closely-related species are separated by what is often a slight difference in the niches they occupy.
Industry:Natural environment
A measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data. It is calculated by taking the square root of the variance.
Industry:Natural environment
A structure forming at the centromere during mitosis for binding microtubules; a platelike structure necessary for chromosomal movement during mitosis; it develops on the centromere and links the chromosomes to the mitotic spindle .
Industry:Natural environment
Activated charcoal is generally called the "universal antidote" by toxicologists, since it is active in adsorbing most toxicants except inorganic salts and heavy metals.
Industry:Natural environment
An irregular pattern of small, dark and light markings, with many of the dark marks connected.
Industry:Natural environment
Caridean shrimps can be distinguished from other shrimp-like creatures by the way in which the plate of the second abdominal segment overlaps the segments both in front and behind, forming a saddle. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats from the tropics to the polar regions. Carideans are taxonomically and ecologically diverse, with many remarkable adaptations for survival and reproduction.These crustaceans are placed in the infraorder Caridea, order Decapoda, and class Malacostraca.
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