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

Microevolution

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Relatively minor change in the composition of a species' gene pool over time.

Hemolymph

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The circulating and tissue-bathing fluid of the arthropod open circulatory system. It is composed of cells and plasma and often loosely termed as blood.

Mesoderm

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The middle of the three germ layers of a triploblastic embryo that gives rise to the skeletal and support, muscular, blood vascular, urogenital and reproductive systems, and contributions to some ...

Genome size

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The size of a genome (all the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism) is generally given as its total number of base pairs.

A body form of medium complexity in sponges where the body wall has become folded and the choanocytes (flagellated collar cells) are not located along the spongocoel, but along radial canals. Water ...

Morph

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A distinct genetic form or variant of a particular species. For example, a distinct colour phase of a species that exhibits more than one colour .

Photophore

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A light-producing organ, found especially in marine fishes and cephalopods. Photophores emit light from intrinsic structures, or derive light extrinsically from symbiotic luminescent bacteria.