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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avicularium

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A small bryozoan heterozooid in which the zooecium and operculum form a beak-like, snapping structure that deters small predators.

dispersant

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A toxic liquid used to place oil in suspension in the water mass and promote its dispersal in order to accelerate break down by the environmen,t including bacterial decomposition. Dispersants are ...

An autonomous (self-replicating) circular piece of DNA found outside the chromosome in bacteria. Plasmids carry information that give the bacteria resistance to antibiotics. They are often used in ...

stoma

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Any of various small openings or pores in an animal body, especially an opening resembling a mouth in many invertebrates; also a minute pore in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of a plant; plural is ...

infrared radiation (IR)

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Earth-emitted radiation over thermal wavelengths: 3-15 micrometers. Used for satellite remote sensing because it can be used to monitor weather and oceanographic conditions 24 hours a day.

species

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In sexually reproducing organisms, a species is a group of genetically related organisms, usually similar in physical appearance, that actually or potentially interbreed and are reproductively ...