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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The voluntary shedding of an appendage by snapping it off the base; in corals, some, reproduce asexually by autotomy (fragmentation), for example, Fungia sp.
Industry:Natural environment
Prias consist of the following islands and coral reefs appurtenant to such island, reef or atoll, as applicable: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Wake Island, and Palmyra atoll.
Industry:Natural environment
A class of endonucleases that cleaves DNA after recognising a specific sequence.
Industry:Natural environment
A functionally specialised substance, not a waste product, released from a gland or cell. Hormones, for example, are secretory products.
Industry:Natural environment
A memory and data storage unit composed of contiguous bits, usually eight. For example, file sizes are measured in bytes or megabytes (one million bytes). Bytes contain values of 0 to 255 and most often represent integer numbers or ASCII characters.
Industry:Natural environment
A reef, usually exposed to wave action, composed of coralline algae and vermatid gastropods. The coralline algae occur in forms of cups or funnels.
Industry:Natural environment
A substance that increases the hydrogen ion concentration in a solution.
Industry:Natural environment
All of the mesenchymal tissue, perforated with channels, that is common to all polyps of a colonial cnidarian.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism (or species) that is not adaptable to human alterations to its environment and thus declines in number where alterations occur.
Industry:Natural environment
Classification which stresses common descent and tends to unite ancestral and descendant groups of a phyletic line in a single higher taxon, separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar grade of evolutionary change.
Industry:Natural environment
