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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A massive colony that has corallite mouths aligned in valleys, such that there are no individual polyps.
Industry:Natural environment
A process whereby the metabolic balance of a cell is disrupted by exposure to environmental substances, resulting in the accumulation of free radicals, which can damage components of cells' membranes, proteins or genetic material by "oxidizing" them.
Industry:Natural environment
A statistical technique applied to data to determine the degree of correlation of a dependent variable with one or more independent variables, in other words, to see if there is a strong or weak cause and effect relationship between things; a statistical process for fitting a line through a set of data points. It gives the intercept and slope(s) of the “best fitting” line. It tells how much one variable (the dependent variable) will change when other variables (the independent variables) change.
Industry:Natural environment
A word or phrase created because an existing term that was once used alone needs to be distinguished from a term referring to a new development; a modification of an existing word occasioned by a discovery or a new concept; as Atlantic herring in contrast to Pacific herring, acoustic guitar in contrast to electric guitar or analog watch in contrast to digital watch.
Industry:Natural environment
An instrument that detects infrared radiation and converts the detected energy to an electrical signal for recording on another medium.
Industry:Natural environment
Having pores or openings that permit liquids or gasses to pass through.
Industry:Natural environment
In taxonomy, the level, for nomenclatural purposes, of a taxon in a taxonomic hierarchy (e.g. All families are for nomenclatural purposes at the same rank, which lies between superfamily and subfamily).
Industry:Natural environment
The electrical signal which rapidly propagates along the membrane of the axon of nerve cells, as well as over the surface of some muscle and glandular cells. It is caused by change in membrane electrical potential, the underlying cause of which is a change in flow of ions across the membrane due to voltage-activated ion channels. It leads to an all-or-nothing action current, the nervous impulse.
Industry:Natural environment
