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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The production of offspring (hybrids) from genetically dissimilar parents.
Industry:Natural environment
Segments of chromosomal DNA known to be linked with heritable traits or diseases. Although the markers themselves do not produce the conditions, they exist in concert with the genes responsible and are passed on with them.
Industry:Natural environment
A codon in mrna for which there is no corresponding trna molecule to insert an amino acid into the polypeptide chain. Protein synthesis is terminated and the completed polypeptide is released from the ribosome. Three stop codons are known: UAA, UAG, and UGA. Mutations which generate any of these three codons in a position which normally contains a codon specifying an amino acid are known as 'nonsense mutations'; also called 'nonsense codons.' A stop codon signals the end of the amino acid chain in protein synthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A gene that is not a competitor at the same locus (specific location on the chromosome) .
Industry:Natural environment
A representation of the measurement of energy emitted or reflected by the Earth in a variety of wavelengths. Earth observation imagery takes a number of forms, of which the most traditional are optical and near-infrared radiation, from about 0.4 (blue) to 2.0 (IR) micrometers. Apart from visual and near-infrared, other bands of the spectrum commonly used include thermal infrared (heat) and microwave (radar). Each of these has its own applications.
Industry:Natural environment
A suite of equations that compute nitrogen uptake and elimination in tissues from changes in the diver's depth and elapsed time underwater.
Industry:Natural environment
An abnormal outgrowth caused by infection or irritation by certain fungi or bacteria.
Industry:Natural environment
In biology, the division of the body into a series of more or less similar segments (metameres), as in an annelid worm or a lobster.
Industry:Natural environment
