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Coral reefs
Coral reefs are structures formed from the calcium carbonate secretions of corals. They are colonies of tiny animals in marine areas containing few nutrients.
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Coral reefs
Macrobenthos (macrofauna or macroflora)
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Benthic organisms (animals or plants) whose shortest dimension is greater than or equal to 0.5 mm.
Daughter cell
Natural environment; Coral reefs
One of the two cells formed by the division of a parent cell.
Aragonite skeleton
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Skeletons primarily composed of the aragonite form of calcium carbonate.
Karyolysis
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The disintegration and dissolution of a cell nucleus upon death of the cell.
Nucleotide
Natural environment; Coral reefs
One of the structural components, or building blocks, of DNA and RNA. A nucleotide consists of a base (one of four nitrogenous bases: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine) plus a molecule of sugar ...
Siphonophore
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Siphonophores are "colonial jellyfish" which have swimming bells at the top, and tentacles with stinging cells below that help them to catch their prey. Each individual of the colony is specialised ...
Transcriptomics
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The discipline of molecular biology that is concerned with the study of messenger RNA (mrna) molecules produced in an individual or population of a particular cell type .
