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Does corals eat zooxanthellae?
No corals doesn't eat zooxanthellae they only eat zooplankton. Zooxanthallae helps corals to live and keeps corals colourful.They live on the coral polyps.
True or False Zooxanthallae live in the tissues of corals?
True. Zooxanthellae are a type of dinoflagellate that often live symbiotically in corals. Zooxanthellae are photosynthetic and provide the corals they live in with energy.
Differences between hermatypic and ahermatypic corals?
Hermatypic corals contain zooxanthellae (a symbiotic algae), whereas ahermatypic corals do not. It is like saying that hermatypic corals are photosynthetic, where ahermatypic corals are non photosynthetic.
What protists reside within the cells of corals?
The photosynthetic protists that lives inside the tissue of the coral polyp is zooxanthellae. Zooxanthellae is a photosynthetic algae.
What are the dinoflagellates that live in corals?
Zooxanthellae are a type of dinoflagellate that live in the "skin" of hard coral. It's a symbiotic relationship where the zooxanthellae are photosynthetic and produce nutrients for the host coral.
Algae that live in the tissues of reef-building corals are known as?
Symbiodinium which is commonly called as zooxanthellae or zoox are unicellular algae. They live in the tissues of reef-building corals.
What gives coral its coral?
Coral rely on a type of algae called zooxanthellae which give corals colour and nutrients.
Do you know the name of 2 symbiotic algae involved in coral formation?
The only one that I am aware of is zooxanthellae, but there may be several species found in corals.
What is an coral?
Coral are made up of a thin layer of living animals called polyps, which secrete a chalky, limestone skeleton as they grow. Coral colonies grow as the polyps divide and multiply in a process known as budding. In addition to catching plank-tonic prey with their tentacles corals also derive nourishment from simple single celled algae called zooxanthellae (pronounced zoo-zan-thelly). living within their tissues. Like all plants, zooxanthellae photosynthesize, producing nutrients from the suns energy which are used by the polyp for its own nutrition. Corals with zooxanthellae are able to lay down limestone skeletons up to three times faster than those corals without.
What is the relationship between the coral polyps and the algae that live in them?
Coral and algae (specifically the algae called zooxanthellae) have an intimate symbiotic relationship. The algae live inside the coral, and provide it with sugars and other photosynthesis byproducts. The coral provides the algae with nutrients for photosynthesis and a safe place to live and reproduce.
Why do corals have different colors?
everything
What does hermatypic coral eat?
Hermatypic corals are those corals that secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton and contribute to the building of reefs. The tissues of these corals contain a symbiotic alga called zooxanthellae. These algae are able to use sunlight to create their own food, and thus give some of this food to the coral. The corals themselves are able to catch and eat both phytoplankton (microscopic plant-like plankton) and zooplankton (microscopic animal plankton) with their tentacles.
