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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An attempt to express the natural order (i.e. Classification) of organisms in numbers, so that each taxon name is represented by a numerical code, the structure of which indicates its taxonomic position, rank and affinities.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of various chemicals, particularly polypeptides, that have a variety of important roles in the stimulation of new cell growth and cell maintenance. They bind to the cell surface on receptors. Specific growth factors can cause new cell proliferation.
Industry:Natural environment
Each of a pair of identical DNA molecules after DNA replication, joined at the centromere.
Industry:Natural environment
In sea slugs, the upstanding flange from the antero-lateral part of the mantle into which a rhinophore can be contracted.
Industry:Natural environment
Related to the environment, the concept of responsible caretaking, based on the premise that we do not own resources, but are managers and are responsible to future generations for their condition; the science, art and skill of responsible and accountable management of resources.
Industry:Natural environment
The chemical code by which genetic information in DNA is translated into biological function. A set of three nucleotides (codons), the building blocks of DNA, signifies one amino acid. Amino acids are the the building blocks of proteins.
Industry:Natural environment
The maximum number of a food or game population that can be harvested without harming the population's ability to grow back; the largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions.
Industry:Natural environment
The sharing of authority, responsibility, and benefits between government and local communities in the management of natural resources.
Industry:Natural environment
A bilaterally symmetric organism is one that is symmetric about a plane running from its frontal end to its caudal end (head to tail), and has nearly identical right and left halves. Most animals are bilaterally symmetrical. The exceptions are sponges (no symmetry), cnidarian polyps and medusae, and ctenophores (radial symmetry), and echinoderms (partial radial symmetry).
Industry:Natural environment
A discharge of pollutants into the environment, partially or completely treated or in its natural state. Generally used in regard to discharges into waters; in contrast to an emmission, which is generally used in regard to discharges of pollutants into the air.
Industry:Natural environment
