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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The area of a coral reef most exposed to breaking waves.
Industry:Natural environment
The lack of any interaction between two organisms or species in a shared habitat. Neither has any effect on the other.
Industry:Natural environment
The reproductive condition where individuals reproduce only once during their lifetime.
Industry:Natural environment
Two taxa that are more closely related to each other than either is to a third taxon.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral branch that divides into two equal branches.
Industry:Natural environment
A group of taxa that includes an ancestral taxon but not all descendants of that taxon.
Industry:Natural environment
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses, such as the isthmus of Panama.
Industry:Natural environment
A sequence of DNA, bounded by start and stop codons, which consists of a series of nucleotide bases that gives rise to mrna (messenger RNA) that will be translated into the specific amino acids of the protein product.
Industry:Natural environment
A taxonomic group that is between a genus and a species.
Industry:Natural environment
Annual normalised growth rate (measured as accretion or lengthening) of a branching coral caused by calcification .
Industry:Natural environment
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