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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

What Is Coral?

Coral is a colonial animal that lives in symbiosis with other organisms like single saled algi and microbes. The majority of its nutritional requirements come from its symbiotic partner, a single celled algy That provides more than 90 % of the nutrition requirements through photo synthesis. So this is all very bad. And i think even relative to other eco systems, things are pretty severe in the coral reefs of the world. But before i go on, to the more hopeful side of the story here, which i am really excited to get into.

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