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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
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
Of the distinct individuals forming a colonial invertebrate animal, such as a hydrozoan.
Industry:Natural environment
One of many genes of small effect that influence the development of a quantitative trait; results in continuous variation and in quantitative inheritance.
Industry:Natural environment
A division of geologic time next shorter than a period. Example: the Pleistocene epoch is in the Quaternary period.
Industry:Natural environment
An external skeleton or supportive covering of an animal formed from the ectoderm, as for example, the shell coverings of a crustacean, the calcium carbonate secretions of stony corals, or the bony plates of an armadillo.
Industry:Natural environment
The cultivation of more than one species of organism in an aquaculture system.
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The study of how genes function to control cellular activities.
Industry:Natural environment
A division of geologic time next smaller than the eon and larger than a period. Example: The Paleozoic era is in the Phanerozoic eon and includes, among others, the Devonian period.
Industry:Natural environment
A lineage designed to show the evolutionary history of relationships among groups of organisms.
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