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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
An environmentally endangered region that is both rich in species and found nowhere else.
Industry:Natural environment
Any species of bony fishes in the family Mullidae. Goatfishes, also called surmullets, are elongate, moderately sized fishes which are characterized by a pair of long, tactile barbels under the chin. Some species are brilliantly colored and some are noted.
Industry:Natural environment
Evolution on the grand scale resulting in the origin of higher taxa.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics, it refers to the standard deviation of a distribution divided by the distribution's mean, providing a standardized measure of the variation in a distribution, which does not increase simply because the mean itself increases or because the units of measurement change.
Industry:Natural environment
The complex biological processes whereby energy and matter are passed up to successive levels of food webs.
Industry:Natural environment
The movement of water in all of its phases (gas, liquid, solid) from the Earth to the atmosphere and back to the Earth.
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The specific matching of purine and pyrimidine base pairs in nucleic acids. This matching occurs because the structure of one base precisely fits with, and bonds to, another specific base. In DNA, adenine and thymine are complementary and form a base pair, as do cytosine and guanine. In pairing between DNA and RNA, adenine and uracil are complementary, and cytosine and guanine are complementary.
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