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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A seabed feature usually constructed from carbonate-producing organisms and current-controlled sedimentation. Carbonate mounds are a unique combination of cold-water coral framework and rubble, sediment deposition, and local hydrodynamic influences.
Industry:Natural environment
A taxon thought to be the closest relative of a given taxon, exclusive of the ancestral species of both taxa.
Industry:Natural environment
In fishes, a larva following the yolk sac stage; the term is applied only when the post larva's morphology continues to be strikingly different from that of the juvenile.
Industry:Natural environment
Primary septa which have a tapered or curved shape because they are enclosed by other septa.
Industry:Natural environment
The analysis of biological information using computers and statistical techniques; the science of developing and utilizing computer databases and algorithms to accelerate and enhance biological research. Bioinformatics is particularly important as an adjunct to genomics research, because of the large volume of complex data generated.
Industry:Natural environment
The integration of a variety of activities designed to manage information and information resources throughout their life cycle. Activities include planning, budgeting, organizing, directing, training, promoting, and controlling the information and information resources throughout the process of collecting, processing, transmitting, disseminating, and disposing of information; the manipulation, reorganization, analysis, graphing, charting, and presentation of data for specific management and decision-making purposes.
Industry:Natural environment
The relationship between the individuals of different species (especially bacterial species) in which one or both benefit nutritionally from the presence of the other. The different species may combine their nutritional metabolic capabilities to utilize, for nutrition, a substance not capable of being utilized by either one alone .
Industry:Natural environment
