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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Number of parts of a substance found in one thousand parts of a particular gas, liquid, or solid.
Industry:Natural environment
Relating to organisms that have a type of nutrition in which organic compounds used in metabolism are obtained by synthesis from inorganic compounds.
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The chlorophyll generally characteristic of higher plants and green algae.It is absent in other types of algae.
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The mesoderm and coelom initially develop as pouches off of the primitive digestive tract (archenteron) of an embryo. Enterocoelous development of the coelom occurs in deuterostomes.
Industry:Natural environment
The single fin situated on the ventral midline of a fish, behind the anus, and anterior to the caudal fin.
Industry:Natural environment
Water that has been on land and moves seaward as a result of rain, flooding, irrigation or flushing . Runoff is frequently high in nutrients and suspended sediments, as well as toxicants.
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A disease of corals. Colonies with this condition have small (2-10 cm diameter) circular to irregular patches of denuded skeleton that will increase in diameter an additional 1-10 cm over a period of 5-7 days. The disease typically affects the top surface of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) branches. In most cases most of the affected tissue dies rapidly, and subsequent enlargement of the bare skeletal areas slows after a few days and eventually stops. A bacterium has been identified as a causal agent .
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A life cycle in which a multicellular diploid stage is followed by a haploid stage, and so on; found in land plants and many algae and fungi.
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A physiological variety or a group of individuals having distinctive genetic characters in common.
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