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

Chromatin

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Replicated DNA and associated proteins; highly folded ribbon-like complexes of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and a class of proteins called histones; protein/DNA complex making the chromosome.

Accuracy

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The closeness by which a set of measurements approaches the true value.

Micropyle

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The minute aperture in the egg membrane for the entry of the sperm cell.

Delayed fertilisation

Natural environment; Coral reefs

When fertilisation of an egg does not occur immediately following introduction of spermatozoa into the female reproductive tract, but may be delayed for weeks or months.

Bioherm

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A body of rock built up by or composed mainly of sedentary organisms, e.g., hard corals, calcareous algae or mollusks, and enclosed or surrounded by rock of different origin.

A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a variance ...