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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The process of combining all aspects of the human, physical and biological aspects of the coastal zone within a single management framework.
Industry:Natural environment
The vegetative body of a plant or alga that is not differentiated into organs, such as roots,stems and leaves.
Industry:Natural environment
Phase in the cell cycle between the completion of DNA synthesis and the next cell division.
Industry:Natural environment
A circular shelf of tissue attached to the underside of the umbrella in a hydrozoan mesusa. It functions in locomotion.
Industry:Natural environment
A free-swimming, planktonic larval stage of many crustaceans.
Industry:Natural environment
A membrane-bound organelle in plant cells that functions in storage (of food or pigments) or food production. Chloroplasts contain the pigments for photosynthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A reef composed of vermetid gastropods (a family of marine snails) built on some substrate such as coralline algae or bivalve shells. These filter-feeding shelled snails, called worm-shells, are gregarious colonial animals which develop massive structures. A vermetid reef may be seen in southwestern Florida, south of Fort Meyers in the Ten Thousand Islands area.
Industry:Natural environment
A substance or physical agent that stimulates transcription of a specific gene or operon.
Industry:Natural environment
Chemical substances of mineral origin which contain no organically produced carbon.
Industry:Natural environment
In a parasite's life cycle, it is the host organism in which the parasite reproduces sexually.
Industry:Natural environment
