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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
One method in which genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring. It is named after the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, who first studied and recognised the existence of genes and this method of inheritance; a hereditary process explainable in terms of the behaviour of chromosomes, e.g., segregation of chromosomes, independent assortment, and homologous exchange of parts.
Industry:Natural environment
A ciliated, free-swimming pelagic larva of a hemichordate.
Industry:Natural environment
A fragment of DNA produced by cleaving (digesting, cutting) a DNA molecule with one or more restriction endonucleases.
Industry:Natural environment
A member of the pairs adenine-thymine, adenine-uracil, and guanine-cytosine that have the ability to hydrogen bond to one another.
Industry:Natural environment
A receptor organ that senses changes in an electrical current in the surrounding water, for example, the ampullae of Lorenzini in sharks.
Industry:Natural environment
Aggressive, negative behaviors, such as fighting, threatening, and fleeing.
Industry:Natural environment
Changes in gene frequencies resulting from selective pressures being placed upon a population by environmental factors. This results in a greater fitness of the population to its ecological niche.
Industry:Natural environment
Sudden decline in the number of individuals found in a population because of a scarcity of required environmental resources.
Industry:Natural environment
The process in which a coral polyp, under environmental stress, expels its symbiotic zooxanthellae from its body. The affected coral colony appears whitened.
Industry:Natural environment
