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

cape

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A piece of land that that projects out into a large body of water.

school

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A social group of fishes (and some other aquatic animals), usually of the same species, which tends to orient and move in the same direction .

superficial cleavage

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A type of cleavage, typical of centrolecithal eggs found in most arthropods, in which karyokinesis (nuclear division) occurs without cytokinesis (cytoplasmic division), resulting in a syncytium. ...

lipase

Natural environment; Coral reefs

An enzyme, secreted by the pancreas and the glands of the small intestine, that breaks down fats into glycerol and fatty acids during digestion.

Any species of colorful deep-bodied, laterally compressed, spiny-rayed fishes in the family Pomacanthidae. They resemble the closely related butterfly fishes, but generally possess a more robust body ...

flabellate

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Fan-shaped.

heteroscedasticity

Natural environment; Coral reefs

In statistics: time-dependent variance; the property of a series of random variables of not every variable having the same finite variance; a sequence of random variables is heteroscedastic if the ...