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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The experimental removal or killing of some part of an organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The process of asexual reproduction in an otherwise multicellular organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The variety of different types of genes or alleles in a species or population.
Industry:Natural environment
Phase in the cell cycle between the completion of cell division and the initiation of DNA synthesis.
Industry:Natural environment
A circular movement of water formed on the side of a main current.
Industry:Natural environment
A free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical, ciliated larva of some echinoderms, such as sea urchins and brittlestars.
Industry:Natural environment
A red, water soluble pigment found in red algae and cyanobacteria.
Industry:Natural environment
A sub-microscopic, obligate intracellular parasite that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; the structure of a virus is basically a strand of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin protein shell. A virus is not a cell, and is "lifelike" only when replicating itself at the expense of the host cell.
Industry:Natural environment
Algae that project more than one centimeter above the substratum.
Industry:Natural environment
