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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The frequency of a given genotype will reach equilibrium in a randomly mating population and will stay constant over many generations in the absence of selection pressures.
Industry:Natural environment
A cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms .
Industry:Natural environment
A fine sediment often associated with river discharge and buildup of organic material in areas sheltered from high-energy waves and currents.
Industry:Natural environment
A male derived through sex change from a protogynous female in which there is a regression of the ovaries and a proliferation of testicular tissues.
Industry:Natural environment
A sponge larva which appears as a solid ball with exterior flagellated cells (except at the "posterior end").
Industry:Natural environment
A very small light often used in electronic instrumentation.
Industry:Natural environment
Benthic organisms whose shortest dimension is less than 0.1 mm.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, belonging to a lower or inferior taxonomic rank. For example, a genus is subordinate to the family to which it belongs.
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One of the variant forms of a gene at a particular locus, or location, on a chromosome. Different alleles produce variation in inherited characteristics. In an individual, one form of the allele (the dominant one) may be expressed more than another form (the recessive one).
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The person who first selects one of two or more simultaneously published names that he or she believes represent the same taxon, or who selects which one of two or more taxa the name will apply to for which identical names have been simultaneously published.
Industry:Natural environment
