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.

Industry: Natural environment

Add a new term

Contributors in Coral reefs

Become a Contributors

Coral reefs

Extinction coefficient

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A coefficient measuring the rate of extinction, or diminution, with distance of transmitted light in sea water.

Repressor gene

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A gene that prevents a nonallele from being transcribed.

Extremophile

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A microorganism that lives at extreme levels of ph, temperature, pressure or salinity.

An organism which carries or transmits a pathogen; a vehicle that transfers genetic material into a host cell or organism. Typically, vectors are of two types: viral- or DNA-based. DNA vectors are ...

Chemoorganotroph

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An organism that obtains energy from the oxidation of organic compounds and cellular carbon from preformed organic compounds.

Beak

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In cephalopods, one of two chitinous mandibles (jaws) used primarily to cut prey tissues during feeding.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The ‘Washington’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more commonly known as CITES, aims to protect certain plants and animals by regulating and monitoring ...