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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The chemical code by which genetic information in DNA is translated into biological function. A set of three nucleotides (codons), the building blocks of DNA, signifies one amino acid. Amino acids are the the building blocks of proteins.
Industry:Natural environment
The maximum number of a food or game population that can be harvested without harming the population's ability to grow back; the largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions.
Industry:Natural environment
The sharing of authority, responsibility, and benefits between government and local communities in the management of natural resources.
Industry:Natural environment
A bilaterally symmetric organism is one that is symmetric about a plane running from its frontal end to its caudal end (head to tail), and has nearly identical right and left halves. Most animals are bilaterally symmetrical. The exceptions are sponges (no symmetry), cnidarian polyps and medusae, and ctenophores (radial symmetry), and echinoderms (partial radial symmetry).
Industry:Natural environment
A discharge of pollutants into the environment, partially or completely treated or in its natural state. Generally used in regard to discharges into waters; in contrast to an emmission, which is generally used in regard to discharges of pollutants into the air.
Industry:Natural environment
A length unit equal to 1000 base pairs of a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule; 1000 pairs of nucleotide bases in DNA.
Industry:Natural environment
A phenotype controlled by many genes of small effect (polygenes).
Industry:Natural environment
A small, low coastal island or emergent reef of sand or coral; flat mound of sand and admixed coral fragments built upon a reef flat or just above high tide level. A synonym of cay.
Industry:Natural environment
A type of asexual reproduction in some sea anemones in which parts of the pedal disc break off and are left behind as the anemone moves.
Industry:Natural environment
