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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A disease in which the organism produces antibodies against its own tissues.
Industry:Natural environment
A level of cellular organisation intermediate between unicellular and multicellular; refers to organisms that occur in a fixed location, with one generation growing on top previous generations, as in coral reefs; types of animal that are organised into associations of incompletely separated individuals; eg, Portuguese man o' war, sponges and corals; in plants, describes cloning by asexual reproduction in which seemingly separate plants grew from rhizomes, stolons, or roots of a single or neighbouring parent plant.
Industry:Natural environment
A smaller part of a habitat that has some internal interactions allowing it to function self-sufficiently within a generally larger habitat, such as a patch reef in a lagoon.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of behaviour where the adult organism returns to its place of origin.
Industry:Natural environment
An enzyme that hydrolyzes proteins, cleaving the peptide bonds that link amino acids in protein molecules.
Industry:Natural environment
Any species of bony spiny-rayed fishes in the family gobiidae. Gobies are small fishes with large heads and elongated tapering bodies. They comprise the largest family of marine fishes, with over 2000 species. Gobies range in size from the mudskipper (about 15-30 cm) to the tiny pygmy goby, Eviota sigillata, a 1-2 cm long coral reef-dwelling goby which has the shortest lifespan for any known vertebrate.
Industry:Natural environment
Extensions of the water-vascular system of echinoderms, protruding from the body and often ending in suckers. They may be used for locomotion and/or for maintaining a tight grip on prey or on the substrate.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics, the number of independent comparisons that can be made between the members of a sample; in a contingency table it is one less than the number of row categories multiplied by one less than the number of column categories. The number of degrees of freedom is defined as the number of observations that can be chosen freely, i.e., an estimate of the number of independent categories in a particular statistical test or experiment.
Industry:Natural environment
Offspring from the same parental group going through their life cycle together.
Industry:Natural environment
The concentration or level of a substance or other factor in an environment that is not the result of human activities, e.g., background levels of chemicals, light, sound, etc.
Industry:Natural environment
