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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In genomics, a key component of DNA and RNA molecules. Four different bases are found in DNA: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). In RNA, uracil (U) substitutes for thymine; also known as nitrogenous bases; a base, a phosphate molecule and a sugar joined together constitute a nucleotide.
Industry:Natural environment
All the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual microbial organisms; the comprehensive range of all DNA sequences of a mixed bacterial sample from nature .
Industry:Natural environment
An organism or a population of organisms foreign to a given ecosystem; they have arrived from elsewhere.
Industry:Natural environment
In animal behavior, any behavior that an animal repeats in the same way.
Industry:Natural environment
Information about the location and shape of, and relationships among, geographic features, usually stored as coordinates and topology.
Industry:Natural environment
The field of biology concerned with the timing of biological events, especially repetitive or cyclic phenomena in individual organisms.
Industry:Natural environment
The process of seeds and fruits dispersal by means of some kind of explosive physical expulsion.The fruit "explodes", propelling its seeds some distance to the ground surrounding the parent plant; also called "discharge dispersal".
Industry:Natural environment
