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Great Barrier Reef
tips & insights
Misnomer
The name "Great Barrier Reef" is a misnomer. The entity is really a collection of many distinct coral reefs.
How
coral reefs are created
It's an intricate process, but here's a quick overview:
Bases
The
thick bases of a coral reef is made from the skeleton remains of the
ancestors of a miniscule marine animal called the coral polyp.
Polyp
Each
new coral polyp produces a protective skeletal shell around itself. It then
attaches itself to neighboring coral polyp shells to form sizeable,
fantastically configured colonies.
Coral
colors
The lavish coral colors are not produced by the polyps. They are created by a photosynthesizing algae that lives symbiotically with the coral polyps.
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