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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A microscope that has a special condenser and objective with a diaphragm that scatters light from the observed object. The object appears bright on a dark background.
Industry:Natural environment
A resemblance to vegetation which allows organisms to conceal themselves from predators or prey.
Industry:Natural environment
A survey which creates, marks, defines, retraces or reestablishes the boundaries and subdivisions of the public land of the United States. It is derived from the word cadastre, meaning a public record, survey, or map of the value, extent, and ownership of land as a basis of taxation.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that releases gametes directly into the sea for external fertilization.
Industry:Natural environment
Common name for species of the anthozoan order Alcyonacea of the subclass Octocorallia. In contrast to the hard or stony corals, most soft corals do not possess a massive external skeleton.
Industry:Natural environment
In cladistics, a group within a monophyletic lineage at the same branching level as another. Therefore, it requires equivalent taxonomic rank in the Linnean classification hierarchy.
Industry:Natural environment
The ability of a community or ecosystem to recover from disturbances and maintain a desired condition of diversity, integrity, and ecological processes.
Industry:Natural environment
The formation of gaseous nitrogen and/or nitrogen oxides from nitrate or nitrite by denitrifying bacteria during anaerobic respiration.
Industry:Natural environment
The proximity of two or more markers (genes, etc.) On a chromosome; the closer together the markers are, the lower the probability that they will be separated during DNA repair or replication processes, and hence the greater the probability that they will be inherited together.
Industry:Natural environment
Those wavelengths of light that can be absorbed by chlorophyll or other light harvesting pigments.
Industry:Natural environment
