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

Development

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The chronological series of changes, from a lower to a higher state of organization, which multicellular organisms undergo from the fertilised egg (zygote) to maturity.

Anabolism

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The metabolic processes that consumes energy and involve the synthesis of larger, complex molecules from simpler ones.

The situation where a diver is at a depth or pressure for a long enough period of time (12 hours or longer) to have the partial pressures of the dissolved gases in the body at equilibrium with the ...

Hemocyanin

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A bluish, copper-containing respiratory pigment with an oxygen-carrying function similar to that of haemoglobin that is present in the blood of certain mollusks and arthropods.

Chloroplast

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A disk-like organelle with a double membrane, found in some protists and all green plant cells, that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.

Heiau

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A traditional Hawaiian place of worship; a religious shrine.

Isolecithal

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An egg cell in which the total amount of yolk is small and the yolk granules are fairly uniformly distibuted throughout the cytoplasm, and cleavage completely bisects the cell, e.g., the egg of a ...