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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A rise in the sea surface on an open coast, often resulting from a hurricane.
Industry:Natural environment
An agent that causes a permanent genetic change in a cell other than that which occurs during normal genetic recombination.
Industry:Natural environment
In corallites, one of many rods or axial structures composed of fibrous tufts (sclerodermites), which form teeth along the upper septal margin .
Industry:Natural environment
Pertains to those aspects of a parapatric speciation event whereby the daughter species are minimally isolated geographically.
Industry:Natural environment
The genetic material of the mitochondria. It is similar in structure to that of the prokaryotic genetic material, formed of a single circular DNA molecule. The mitochondria of sexually-reproducing animals usually comes only from the maternal side, and is essentially the same as that of the mother. Sometimes mitochondria from spermatozoa are also passed on to offspring. Mitochondrial DNA has been studied to trace lineage far back in time.
Industry:Natural environment
The rate at which new plant biomass is formed by photosynthesis. Gross primary productivity is the total rate of photosynthetic production of biomass; net primary productivity is gross primary productivity minus the respiration rate .
Industry:Natural environment
