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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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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.
