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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Temperature, precipitation, and wind speed and direction that occur on a daily basis.
Industry:Natural environment
The widespread outbreak of a disease, or a large number of cases of a disease in a single community or relatively small area.
Industry:Natural environment
Scattered islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean roughly between New Zealand in the southwest, Hawaii in the north, and Easter Island in the southeast. The larger islands are volcanic, the smaller ones are generally coral formations .
Industry:Natural environment
A method of learning about the physical universe by applying the principles of the scientific method, which includes making empirical observations, proposing hypotheses to explain those observations, and testing those hypotheses in valid and reliable ways; also refers to the organized body of knowledge that results from scientific study.
Industry:Natural environment
Collection of organs which have related roles in an organism's functioning. The nervous system, circulatory system, and muscle system are all organ systems.
Industry:Natural environment
The product, either RNA or protein, that results from expression of a gene. The amount of gene product reflects the activity of the gene.
Industry:Natural environment
The flow of an element through the living tissue and physical environment of an ecosystem, e.g., the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus cycles.
Industry:Natural environment
An organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism. It gives its host nothing beneficial in return, and often is injurious and even lethal to the host.
Industry:Natural environment
Segments of chromosomal DNA known to be linked with heritable traits or diseases. Although the markers themselves do not produce the conditions, they exist in concert with the genes responsible and are passed on with them.
Industry:Natural environment
