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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Refers to data with geographic location information included, such as latitude and longitude.
Industry:Natural environment
The branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues. The four basic types of animal tissues are: epithelial tissue, nervous tissue, muscular tissue and connective tissue (bone, cartilage, blood, fat, and areolar (fibrous). The three basic plant tissues are: dermal tissue, ground tissue, and vascular tissue.
Industry:Natural environment
The Linnaean binomial. A name of a species composed of two words: the genus (or generic) name and the species (or trivial) name, e.g., Acropora palmata. The scientific name is always written in italics. The first letter of the generic name is always capitalized; that of the species name is never capitalized.
Industry:Natural environment
The science that links the study of inheritance (genetics) with that of cells (cytology) and is concerned mainly with the study of the structure, and function of chromosomes.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral that lacks zooxanthellae and does not build reefs.
Industry:Natural environment
A high-speed particle, identical to an electron, emitted from an atomic nucleus.
Industry:Natural environment
A nitrogen-containing, double-ring, basic compound that occurs in nucleic acids. The purines in DNA and RNA are adenine and guanine.
Industry:Natural environment
A term used to describe the location of the pelvic (ventral) fins when they are inserted far behind pectorals. This is the more primitive condition. More recently evolved conditions have the pelvic fins in the thoracic or jugular positions. A salmon, for example, has its pelvic fins in the abdominal position. An angelfish has the pelvic fins in the thoracic position, and blennies have the pelvic fins in the jugular position, anterior to the pelvic girdle.
Industry:Natural environment
An area on the ocean floor covered mostly by (dead) coral skeletons.
Industry:Natural environment
