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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A region of the chromosome, adjacent to the operon, where a repressor protein binds to prevent transcription of the operon.
Industry:Natural environment
A molecule that is capable of reacting with free radicals and neutralising them; a compound that slows the rate of oxidation reactions.
Industry:Natural environment
All the DNA contained in an organism or a cell, which includes both the chromosomes within the nucleus and the DNA in mitochondria.
Industry:Natural environment
Cleavage where the fate of the resulting daughter cells is not determined after the initial divisionof a fertilised egg. If the cells separate, each has the potential to develop into an entire organism and the resulting individuals are genetically identical (identical twins). Inderterminate cleavage is characteristic of deuterostomes.
Industry:Natural environment
In animal behavior, a special signalling device used by an animal in a stereotypical movement, as for example, the waving of a fiddler crab's claw to attract the attention of other members of its species.
Industry:Natural environment
Information about data or other information. Metadata or "data about data" describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data.
Industry:Natural environment
Pertaining to the roof of a structure, e.g. The top of the head or brain.
Industry:Natural environment
Taxa in danger of extinction and whose survival is unlikely if causal factors continue operating. Included are taxa whose numbers have been drastically reduced to a critical level or whole habitats have been so drastically impaired that they are deemed to be in immediate danger of extinction. Also included are those that possibly are already extinct, in so far as they have not been seen in the wild in the past 50 years.
Industry:Natural environment
The female gamete-producing reproductive organ in red algae, consisting of a single cell and its extension, the trichogyne.
Industry:Natural environment
