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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Homogeneous

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Of similar or uniform structure or composition throughout; refers to anything which displays a uniform or consistent composition.

Oxidation

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The combination of a substance with oxygen. Oxidation can also describe a type of reaction in which the atoms in an element lose electrons and the valence is correspondingly increased.

Ebb current

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The movement of a tidal current away from shore or down a tidal river or estuary.

Bedrock

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The solid rock of the earth's crust that lies under the soil and other unconsolidated earth materials.

Phospho-diester bond

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A bond in which a phosphate group joins adjacent carbons through ester linkages.

Clupeotoxic fish

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Fishes in the orders Clupeiformes (herrings and herring-like fishes), and Elopiformes (ladyfishes and tarpons) whose flesh might contain a toxin, clupeotoxin, by ingesting certain dinoflagellates ...

Polygene

Natural environment; Coral reefs

One of many genes of small effect that influence the development of a quantitative trait; results in continuous variation and in quantitative inheritance.