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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A synonym of reef slope. It is sometimes used to represent the lower reef slope.
Industry:Natural environment
An alteration of phenotype as an organism adapts from one micro-environment to another and as the local environment changes; when an organism activates different phenotypes in response to its environment. Phenotypic plasticity may cause some organisms to look different from each other even though they are genetically identical.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism whose chromosomes are not enclosed within a nuclear membrane, e.g., a bacterium or cyanobacterium.
Industry:Natural environment
Corallites that form a pattern which resembles fish scales.
Industry:Natural environment
In ecology, the number of organisms supported at each trophic level in a food chain; typically, fewer organisms are supported at successively higher trophic levels.
Industry:Natural environment
The act of making less severe or intense; measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment.
Industry:Natural environment
The half of an oocyte or egg which contains less yolk, or the corresponding half of an early embryo with the more actively dividing cells.
Industry:Natural environment
To genetically engineer an organism to produce a pharmaceutical drug, vaccine or industrial substance.
Industry:Natural environment
