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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The chances of events happening as determined by calculating results that would occur under ideal circumstances.
Industry:Natural environment
The mass of filamentous growth (hyphae) from which the vegetative part of a fungus develops.
Industry:Natural environment
The set of three nucleotides in an mrna molecule with which the ribosome starts the process of translation. The start codon sets the reading frame for translation. The most commonly used start codon is AUG, which is decoded as methionine in eukaryotes, and as N-formylmethionine in prokaryotes; also called 'initiator codon'.
Industry:Natural environment
DNA that is located in the mitochondria of cells. It is inherited only from the female parent.
Industry:Natural environment
Documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject.
Industry:Natural environment
Each time energy is converted from one form to another, some of the energy is always degraded to a lower-quality, more dispersed, less useful form; no system can convert energy from one form to another useful form with 100 percent efficiency; energy cannot be transferred spontaneously from a cold body to a hot body. As a result of this fact, natural processes that involve energy transfer must have one direction, and all natural processes are irreversible. This law also predicts that the entropy of an isolated system always increases with time.
Industry:Natural environment
Each year, subject to the availability of funds, NOAA publishes its Coral Reef Conservation Grant programme Funding Guidance, as authorised by the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, to solicit proposals for coral reef conservation activities. The Act authorises the Secretary of Commerce, through the NOAA administrator and subject to the availability of funds, to issue matching grants of financial assistance for broad-based coral reef conservation activities, consistent with the purposes of the Act.
Industry:Natural environment
Earliest evolved eukaryotic kingdom. It includes the protozoans, the slime molds, the unicellular algae, and the multicellular algae. However, some consider the multicellular marine algae (seaweeds) as belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
Industry:Natural environment
Energy can be transferred from one system to another in many forms, however, it can not be created nor destroyed. Thus, the total amount of energy available in the universe is constant.
Industry:Natural environment
