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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A permanent structural alteration in DNA. In most cases, DNA changes either have no effect or cause harm, but occasionally a mutation can improve an organism's chance of surviving and passing the beneficial change on to its descendants.
Industry:Natural environment
A small sheltered indentation in the shoreline. A cove is smaller than a bay.
Industry:Natural environment
A two-dimensional histogram showing the joint probability density of two variables within a data sample; it is used to interpret data by graphically displaying the relationship between two variables.
Industry:Natural environment
An endangered species of seal (Monachus schauinslandi) normally found on the leeward (southwest) sides of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and occasionally sighted in the Main Hawaiian Islands. It is estimated that fewer than 1500 Hawaiian monk seals exist today. The Hawaiian monk seal was officially designated endangered 1976 and is protected by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. It is illegal to kill, capture or harass monk seals. A critically endangered species of monk seal (Monachus monachus) is found in the Mediterranean Sea. The Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) is thought to be extinct.
Industry:Natural environment
Any small, usually hard, knobby excrescence or lump. In pycnogonids and some cheliceramorph arthropods, the central eyes are carried on a tubercle.
Industry:Natural environment
Environment-induced stress that results in bleaching, e.g., disease, excessive or insufficient light, increased levels of ultraviolet radiation, sedimentation, pollution, salinity changes, and increased temperatures.
Industry:Natural environment
In sponges, an excurrent canal discharges water received from the apopyle, into the spongocoel (atrium). The water then passes through the osculum or oscula to the outside .
Industry:Natural environment
Of similar or uniform structure or composition throughout; refers to anything which displays a uniform or consistent composition.
Industry:Natural environment
The combination of a substance with oxygen. Oxidation can also describe a type of reaction in which the atoms in an element lose electrons and the valence is correspondingly increased.
Industry:Natural environment
