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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A piece of land that that projects out into a large body of water.
Industry:Natural environment
A social group of fishes (and some other aquatic animals), usually of the same species, which tends to orient and move in the same direction .
Industry:Natural environment
A type of cleavage, typical of centrolecithal eggs found in most arthropods, in which karyokinesis (nuclear division) occurs without cytokinesis (cytoplasmic division), resulting in a syncytium. Cleavage furrows form to separate the nuclei.
Industry:Natural environment
An enzyme, secreted by the pancreas and the glands of the small intestine, that breaks down fats into glycerol and fatty acids during digestion.
Industry:Natural environment
Any species of colorful deep-bodied, laterally compressed, spiny-rayed fishes in the family Pomacanthidae. They resemble the closely related butterfly fishes, but generally possess a more robust body and a sharp preopercular spine. There are other kinds of unrelated fresh water angelfishes, belonging to the family Cichlidae, which are common home aquarium fishes.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics: time-dependent variance; the property of a series of random variables of not every variable having the same finite variance; a sequence of random variables is heteroscedastic if the random variables have different variances.
Industry:Natural environment
On the authority of, according to, with reference to a publication or to a cited published statement.
Industry:Natural environment
The condition in which a cell contains a nucleus with two complete sets of chromosomes, one set inherited from each parent. The diploid condition is often abbreviated as 2n. Most plants and animals are diploid. The term also represents the number of chromosomes in most cells except the gametes, which are haploid in chromosome number.
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