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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The relationship between the individuals of different species (especially bacterial species) in which one or both benefit nutritionally from the presence of the other. The different species may combine their nutritional metabolic capabilities to utilize, for nutrition, a substance not capable of being utilised by either one alone .
Industry:Natural environment
A condition in which a tissue or organ does not receive a sufficient supply of blood.
Industry:Natural environment
A group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that tend to be inherited together and sometimes are functionally related.
Industry:Natural environment
A secondary mineral deposited in a cave by the evaporation of mineral-rich water. Stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, and columns are kinds of speleothems. Most common speleothems are composed of calcite, aragonite (calcium carbonate) or gypsum (calcium sulphate).
Industry:Natural environment
A taxon with all its subordinate taxa and their individuals; e.g., the taxonomic group Crustacea consists of all crustaceans and their taxa.
Industry:Natural environment
An unlearned, genetically coded behaviour pattern that is internally motivated and characteristic of the species; the innate capacity of an animal to respond to a given stimulus in a relatively fixed way.
Industry:Natural environment
Data collected by automated instrumentation and telemetered and analysed quickly enough to influence a decision that affects the monitored system.
Industry:Natural environment
In fishes, a muscle(s) associated with the swimbladder, which when contracted against the swimbladder wall, produces sounds associated with territorial and reproductive behavior.
Industry:Natural environment
Problem analysis based on informal judgement or experience versus data manipulation; a guideline or rule of thumb that is normally effective in dealing with a given situation.
Industry:Natural environment
The relationship between the two strands of a double helix of DNA. Thymine in one strand pairs with adenine in the other strand, and cytosine in one strand pairs with guanine in the other strand.
Industry:Natural environment
