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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An assemblage of structure-forming deep-sea sponges and other associated species below 50 m .
Industry:Natural environment
Any of several light-colored burrowing crabs of the genus Ocypoda frequenting the tide line along sandy shores from the northeast United States to Brazil. Ghost Crabs have a relatively thin, light exoskeleton and two large black eyes that stand up like periscopes. They are called ghosts because of their ability to instantly disappear from sight, moving at speeds at speeds up to 10 miles per hour, while making sharp directional change and disappearing into their burrows.
Industry:Natural environment
DNA-containing bodies in the cell but external to the nucleus.
Industry:Natural environment
In scuba breathing equipment, the second stage regulator, which is attached to the mouthpiece, reduces the intermediate pressure from the first stage regulator (attached to the air tank) to that needed for comfortable breathing at depth.
Industry:Natural environment
Region in which the climate undergoes seasonal change in temperature and moisture. Temperate regions of the earth lie primarily between 30 and 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres.
Industry:Natural environment
The chances of events happening as determined by calculating results that would occur under ideal circumstances.
Industry:Natural environment
The mass of filamentous growth (hyphae) from which the vegetative part of a fungus develops.
Industry:Natural environment
The set of three nucleotides in an mrna molecule with which the ribosome starts the process of translation. The start codon sets the reading frame for translation. The most commonly used start codon is AUG, which is decoded as methionine in eukaryotes, and as N-formylmethionine in prokaryotes; also called 'initiator codon'.
Industry:Natural environment
DNA that is located in the mitochondria of cells. It is inherited only from the female parent.
Industry:Natural environment
