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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.
What are the organisms that live in colonies of polyps and secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate?
Corals are organisms that live in colonies of polyps and secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate. These structures form the framework of coral reefs, providing habitat for a diverse array of marine life.
What class of cnidarians typically only live as polyps?
The class of cnidarians that typically only live as polyps is the Anthozoa. This class includes sea anemones and corals, which exist primarily as polyps and do not have a medusa stage in their life cycle.
Did corals have pores?
Yes, corals have microscopic pores called polyps that they use to capture food and expel waste. These polyps are responsible for secreting the calcium carbonate that forms the hard skeleton of coral reefs.
What are the characteristics of a coral reef?
A coral reef comprises of a community of fish, plants and other organisms. Many polyps make up the coral reefs. Tentacles originating from the center of each polyp form a cup-shaped ring. The polyps also have calcium-filled outer skeletons.
What is a coral polyps habitat?
Where do polyps live
What is the collective nouns for corals?
The collective noun for coral is a reef of coral or a bed of coral.Although the plural form, corals, is the correct form for the living creatures themselves, the part that of the coral that is seen, the reef or the substance from which things are made, is an uncountable noun, a word for a substance. There is no collective noun for the live creatures.
When the temperature of the ocean water rises it puts stress on coral in response to the stress corals expel the algae that live inside the coral polyps what is this process called and why is it da?
This process is called bleaching, as it turns the corals white. I dont know why it is da, as I dont know what da means.
Why soft corals live in deeper water than hard corals?
soft corals live deeper water than hard corals because soft corals do not create a hard outer skeleton as the hard corals do.
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.
The Respiration of a hydrozoa is?
The hydrozoa refers to the taxonomic class of predatory animals and colonial animals that live in salt water. The members of hydozoa are related to corals and jellyfish.
Does eastern diamondback live in solitary or in group?
rattlesnakes live solitary
