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Can coral grow on gold? Yes. Coral is not a plant, it is an animal, and it does not get its nutrients from the soil or rock it grows on. Instead, it eats zooplankton and other small marine bugs, and it gets its calcium, amino acids, etc. from the surrounding sea water. To structurally support themselves, corals grow next to each other and harden together, forming reefs. Thus they could grow on anything!! It doesn't matter. Coral also uses photosynthesis to make sugars out of sunlight. The only way they wouldn't grow on gold is if it were toxic to coral. I do not think this is the case, since gold has little or no affinity for binding oxygen, carbon, or nitrogen. The only thing it really has an affinity for is sulfur. So if sulfur is necessary for coral to live, then perhaps.... The only thing that my pharmacology book says gold inhibits is mycobacterium tuberculosis, nothing else.
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What are structural adaptations of coral?
One of the structual adaptaions of coral are that it will grow slower. One of the structual adaptaions of coral are that it will grow slower.
Does coral grow on rocks?
It grows on the sea beds, but that kinda is a rock. If a coral polyp lands on a rock, I guess coral can grow there! =)
Do crabs eat coral?
No it doesnt because im studying it and it says it eats coral mucus
Do coral grow?
yes
How much does a coral reef grow in a year?
They grow as much as 4.5 cm year. But colonies of coral grow as much as 10 cm a year
What does coral need to grow?
Coral can grow between 30 and 60 feet tall.Sometimes it can be smaller or bigger !
Where does coral rose grow?
i am not telling you
Skeletons of living coral grow together to form a structure called a?
called hermatypic coral.
Do coral reefs grow well in high levels of oxygen?
yes, coral reefs do grow well in high levels of oxygen.
What kind of soil does coral need to grow?
The coral reefs are mostly able to grow in clay like material that keeps the coral stable. They just need sand for certain corals and other grow on solid rock surfaces. It just depends if the coral is a Small polyp stoney corals or a large polyp stony or some other kind of soft coral.
Why do coral grow slower?
Slower than what?
How long can coral reefs grow?
10days
