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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The application of probability theory to quantified descriptive data.
Industry:Natural environment
The line separating land and water. It fluctuates as water rises and falls.
Industry:Natural environment
The release of nutrients from organic matter by decomposer organisms.
Industry:Natural environment
A constant ratio scale in which equal distances on the scale represent equal ratios of increase. For example, in a logarithmic scale, the distance between 10 and 100 is the same as the distance between 100 and 1000, or between 1000 and 10,000. Logarithmic scales are used when the range of numbers being represented is large.
Industry:Natural environment
A mutant form of a gene gene whose phenotypic effect eventually results in the death of the bearing organism. Death from different lethal genes may occur at any time, from fertilisation of the egg to advanced age. Lethal genes may be dominant, incompletely dominant, or recessive; also called a 'lethal allele'.
Industry:Natural environment
A sensory organ in chitons (Polyplacophora-Mollusca) which can be protruded and pressed against the substrate in the search for food.
Industry:Natural environment
A taxonomic group that is a division of a species. It usually evolves as a consequence of reproductive isolation of one or more populations within a species.
Industry:Natural environment
Anatomically beneath, lower, or toward the bottom (e.g., the mouth is inferior to the nose).
Industry:Natural environment
Defensive postures or other visual displays, including colour changes, that function to intimidate or frighten another animal.
Industry:Natural environment
In fishes, between the rays (or spines), e.g. Interradial pigment is pigment on the membrane between the rays.
Industry:Natural environment
