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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Human-designed changes in an organism, whether done through traditional breeding or genetic engineering. The terms "genetically modified" and "genetically engineered" are sometimes used interchangeably .
Industry:Natural environment
A word or phrase created because an existing term that was once used alone needs to be distinguished from a term referring to a new development; a modification of an existing word occasioned by a discovery or a new concept; as Atlantic herring in contrast to Pacific herring, acoustic guitar in contrast to electric guitar or analog watch in contrast to digital watch.
Industry:Natural environment
The use of living organisms, such as parasites, disease agents, and predators, to control or eliminate other unwanted living organisms, rather than by using toxic chemicals or other means of elimination.
Industry:Natural environment
A member of the family Hydophiidae. Sea snakes are common in the Indo-Pacific. Related to cobras, these live-bearing reptiles are highly venomous but not aggressive by nature.
Industry:Natural environment
The process of asexual reproduction in an otherwise multicellular organism.
Industry:Natural environment
The variety of different types of genes or alleles in a species or population.
Industry:Natural environment
A sub-microscopic, obligate intracellular parasite that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; the structure of a virus is basically a strand of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin protein shell. A virus is not a cell, and is "lifelike" only when replicating itself at the expense of the host cell.
Industry:Natural environment
Chemical substances of mineral origin which contain no organically produced carbon.
Industry:Natural environment
