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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Pertaining to or composed of cartilage; of the consistence of cartilage or gristle.
Industry:Natural environment
Stony, soft, gorgonian, black, and horny corals that inhabit the colder deep waters of continental shelves and offshore canyons, ranging from 50 -1000m+ depths. They lack zooxanthellae and may build reef-like structures or occur solitarily.
Industry:Natural environment
The evolutionary process whereby one species evolves into another without any splitting of the phylogenetic tree.
Industry:Natural environment
The process by which the genetic information encoded in a linear sequence of nucleotides in one strand of DNA is copied into an exactly complementary sequence of mrna (messenger RNA). The mrna then carries this information to the cytoplasm of the cell, where it serves as the blueprint for the manufacture of a specific protein.
Industry:Natural environment
The use of computers to present video, sound, graphics, and text.
Industry:Natural environment
The temperature of the layer of seawater (approximately 0.5 m deep) nearest the atmosphere.
Industry:Natural environment
A chromosomal re-arrangement that reverses the order of a linear array of genes on the chromosome.
Industry:Natural environment
A member of a family of nudibranchs (Tritoniidae) which feed on soft corals, gorgonians, and other anthozoans. A characteristic common to the tritoniids are the dorsilateral branched cerata, used as gills and located in the edges of the dorsal surface .
Industry:Natural environment
A rapid test where an antibody or antigen is linked to an enzyme as a means of detecting a match between the antibody and antigen; a technique for detecting specific proteins by using antibodies linked to enzymes.
Industry:Natural environment
