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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In animal behavior, the individual that takes a lead role and occupies the dominant position in a group.
Industry:Natural environment
Inhabiting a tube or tubular structure; tube dwelling, such as some marine polychaete worms.
Industry:Natural environment
The field of biology that deals with the relationships among organisms.
Industry:Natural environment
The wearing away of the land surface naturally by wind or water, but is often intensified by human's land-clearing practices. The runoff is harmful to coral reefs .
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to organisms that grow and reproduce at extremely low temperatures, typically below 10 degrees C.
Industry:Natural environment
A class of subatomic particles that constitute matter which have no measurable size and do not interact with the strong nuclear force. The charged leptons are the electron, the muon, the tau and their antiparticles. Neutral leptons are called neutrinos.
Industry:Natural environment
A gene coded on a sex chromosome, such as the X-chromosome-linked genes.
Industry:Natural environment
A method for uncompressing files on a PC after downloading them from the Internet. Many files are stored on servers in a compressed format, making them take up less disk space, and reducing the time it takes to download them. These files must be decompressed to make them usable by your computer. Winzip and pkunzip are popular free software programs that will uncompress files.
Industry:Natural environment
