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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A shell divided into smaller chambers, as in the chambered nautilus (Cephalopoda-Mollusca).
Industry:Natural environment
A term used to describe nucleic acid molecules consisting of only one polynucleotide chain. The genomes of certain phages are single-stranded DNA molecules; rrna, mrna and trna are all single-stranded nucleic acids.
Industry:Natural environment
An area of the ocean surface which is experiencing warmer sea surface temperatures (ssts) than the typical maximum temperature reached at that location. The typical maximum temperature, which generally occurs in late summer, is important because this is the highest temperature to which corals in a particular location are accustomed. So, when the SST exceeds this by some threshold (typically one degree C) corals are in danger of bleaching. Many factors such as salinity, insolation, winds, and local currents play a role in coral reef bleaching, but clearly extreme ssts are a critical factor; also called "hotspots".
Industry:Natural environment
Any form of unicellular or multicellular life; a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently.
Industry:Natural environment
Detailed studies which predict the effects of a development project on the environment. They also provide plans for the mitigation of adverse impacts.
Industry:Natural environment
In genomics, a tool for studying how large numbers of genes interact with each other and how a cell’s regulatory networks control vast batteries of genes simultaneously. A robot is used to precisely apply tiny droplets containing functional DNA to glass slides. Researchers then attach fluorescent labels to DNA from the cell they are studying. The labeled probes are allowed to bind to cdna strands on the slides. The slides are put into a scanning microscope to measure how much of a specific DNA fragment is present.
Industry:Natural environment
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
