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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
To produce a sound by rubbing two body parts together. Some fishes make sounds by rubbing together bodily structures, especially skeletal parts.
Industry:Natural environment
One method in which genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring. It is named after the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, who first studied and recognized the existence of genes and this method of inheritance; a hereditary process explainable in terms of the behavior of chromosomes, e.g., segregation of chromosomes, independent assortment, and homologous exchange of parts.
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A ciliated, free-swimming pelagic larva of a hemichordate.
Industry:Natural environment
A fragment of DNA produced by cleaving (digesting, cutting) a DNA molecule with one or more restriction endonucleases.
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A member of the pairs adenine-thymine, adenine-uracil, and guanine-cytosine that have the ability to hydrogen bond to one another.
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A receptor organ that senses changes in an electrical current in the surrounding water, for example, the ampullae of Lorenzini in sharks.
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Aggressive, negative behaviors, such as fighting, threatening, and fleeing.
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