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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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Coral reefs
histology
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues. The four basic types of animal tissues are: epithelial tissue, nervous tissue, muscular tissue and connective ...
scientific name
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The Linnaean binomial. A name of a species composed of two words: the genus (or generic) name and the species (or trivial) name, e.g., Acropora palmata. The scientific name is always written in ...
apomixis
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The asexual production of diploid offspring without the fusion of gametes. The embryo develops by mitotic division of the maternal or paternal gamete, or in the case of plants, by mitotic division of ...
hard coral forms
Natural environment; Coral reefs
May be conveniently summarized as: encrusting (lichen-like); branched (staghorn-like); massive (rock-like); sub-massive (pillar-like); tabulate (table-like); foliose (scroll-like); and solitary.
trichogyne
Natural environment; Coral reefs
Receptive elongation of the carpogonium (female reproductive structure) in red algae where male gametes become attached.
megalops larva
Natural environment; Coral reefs
The larval stage in brachyuran crabs that follows the zoea larval stage .
