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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
Gonangium
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A reproductive polyp of a colonial hydrozoan. It consists of a stalk containing medusa buds surrounded by a thin membrane, the gonotheca.
Creel survey
Natural environment; Coral reefs
A survey of anglers in a particular area to discover the types and numbers of fish caught.
Raster
Natural environment; Coral reefs
An abstraction of the real world where spatial data is expressed as a matrix of cells or pixels, with spatial position implicit in the ordering of the pixels. With the raster data model, spatial data ...
Osmotroph
Natural environment; Coral reefs
An organism that obtains nutrients through the active uptake of soluble materials across the cell membrane.
Monomer
Natural environment; Coral reefs
In chemistry, a single molecule that is the subunit of a polymer; in genetics, a character determined by a gene or genes at a particular locus.
Articulated
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Jointed, as in for example, the soft fin rays of fishes.
Wild type
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The form of an organism that occurs most frequently in nature.
