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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The granular portion of the cell cytoplasm between the ectoplasm and nuclear membrane.
Industry:Natural environment
To disintegrate tissues by means of cutting, soaking or enzymatic action to obtain a cell dissociation.
Industry:Natural environment
The DNA from an organism that contains a target gene. This DNA is used as starting material in a cloning experiment.
Industry:Natural environment
A commercial dive boat with sleeping and eating accommodations. Scuba divers live aboard the boat for several days and usually visit dive locations unaccessible to other divers.
Industry:Natural environment
A gradual and continuous change in environmental conditions of an ecosystem or community; gradual transition between ecotypes; a continuous change in form as a response to a continuous change in an environment.
Industry:Natural environment
A molecule of intermediate relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises a small plurality of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of lower relative molecular mass; a polymer that consists of two, three, or four monomers.
Industry:Natural environment
An allele for which all copies are derived from a single genic mutational event. It is probable that all individuals who share the mutation will have inherited it from the same common ancestor, and the same single mutational event .
Industry:Natural environment
An organism which serves as the habitat for a parasite or symbiont. The host may provide nutrition to the parasite or symbiont, or simply a place in which to live.
Industry:Natural environment
Coral bleaching as a result of changing climate patterns, e.g., temperature.
Industry:Natural environment
