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

Vermetid reef

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A reef composed of vermetid gastropods (a family of marine snails) built on some substrate such as coralline algae or bivalve shells. These filter-feeding shelled snails, called worm-shells, are ...

Activator

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A substance or physical agent that stimulates transcription of a specific gene or operon.

Inorganic matter

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Chemical substances of mineral origin which contain no organically produced carbon.

Definitive host

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In a parasite's life cycle, it is the host organism in which the parasite reproduces sexually.

Meroblastic cleavage

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Incomplete cleavage of the zygote, restricted to the blastodisc, the non-yolky cytoplasm at one end of the egg; typical of teloblastic eggs.

Nanoscience

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The extension of existing sciences into the realms of the extremely small, as in nanomaterials, nanochemistry, nanobiology, nanophysics, nanoengineering, etc.