Coral reefs

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

Skeletal density

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Certain massive coral species (e.g. Porites) exhibit annual variations in the density of their calcium carbonate (caco3) skeleton, similar to tree rings. The annual density bands are revealed when ...

Cartilagenous

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Pertaining to or composed of cartilage; of the consistence of cartilage or gristle.

Deep-sea corals

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Stony, soft, gorgonian, black, and horny corals that inhabit the colder deep waters of continental shelves and offshore canyons, ranging from 50 -1000m+ depths. They lack zooxanthellae and may build ...

Anagenesis

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The evolutionary process whereby one species evolves into another without any splitting of the phylogenetic tree.

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Natural environment; Coral reefs

The process by which the genetic information encoded in a linear sequence of nucleotides in one strand of DNA is copied into an exactly complementary sequence of mrna (messenger RNA). The mrna then ...