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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A coral which harbours or broods developing larvae within its polyps.
Industry:Natural environment
A hole drilled into the earth for the purpose of exploration or extraction of natural resources such as oil, gas or water. It may have casing in it, usually a metal pipe, or it may be open, or some combination of casing and no casing.
Industry:Natural environment
A non-anchored plant that floats freely in the water or on the surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A short sequence (usually 2-50 bases) of DNA. Oligonucleotides of up to 30 bases are routinely synthesised for use as PCR primers or as probes for their sequence compliments in a complex mixture of DNA.
Industry:Natural environment
A text file containing a sequence of commands that can be executed as one command.
Industry:Natural environment
An area poor in species richness and/or biodiversity; an impoverished habitat.
Industry:Natural environment
Any individual or group that deviates form the typical anatomy or behavior; in genetics, an organism that is genetically different from the wild type organism.
Industry:Natural environment
Development and maintenance of advantageous traits benefiting one or both parties in a two-species interaction; evolution of characteristics of two or more species to their mutual advantage; predator-prey and cleaning symbioses are examples of such evolving interactions in marine communities.
Industry:Natural environment
In genomics, the DNA or RNA being hybridised to a microarray; for diagnostic tests, the molecule or nucleic acid sequence that is being sought in a sample.
Industry:Natural environment
