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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The chlorophyll generally characteristic of higher plants and green algae.It is absent in other types of algae.
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The mesoderm and coelom initially develop as pouches off of the primitive digestive tract (archenteron) of an embryo. Enterocoelous development of the coelom occurs in deuterostomes.
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The single fin situated on the ventral midline of a fish, behind the anus, and anterior to the caudal fin.
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Water that has been on land and moves seaward as a result of rain, flooding, irrigation or flushing . Runoff is frequently high in nutrients and suspended sediments, as well as toxicants.
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A disease of corals. Colonies with this condition have small (2-10 cm diameter) circular to irregular patches of denuded skeleton that will increase in diameter an additional 1-10 cm over a period of 5-7 days. The disease typically affects the top surface of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) branches. In most cases most of the affected tissue dies rapidly, and subsequent enlargement of the bare skeletal areas slows after a few days and eventually stops. A bacterium has been identified as a causal agent .
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A life cycle in which a multicellular diploid stage is followed by a haploid stage, and so on; found in land plants and many algae and fungi.
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A physiological variety or a group of individuals having distinctive genetic characters in common.
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A SNP (pronounced "snip") is a small genetic change, or variation, that can occur within an organism's DNA sequence. The genetic code is specified by the four nucleotides: adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine. SNP variation occurs when a single nucleotide, such as adenine, replaces one of the other three nucleotides. Snps found within a coding sequence are of particular interest to researchers because they are more likely to alter the biological function of a protein. Because of the recent advances in technology, coupled with the unique ability of these genetic variations to facilitate gene identification, there has been a heightened activities of SNP discovery and detection.
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A type of cleavage characteristic of deuterostomes. When changing from a four-cell stage to an eight-cell stage embryo, the cells divide such that each cell in the top four cell plane is directly over one other cell in the bottom plane.
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