Close Up View of Coral
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Coral on Eua Island. The coral "head", commonly perceived to be a single organism, is formed from thousands of individual but genetically identical polyps, with each polyp only a few millimeters in diameter. Over thousands of generations, the polyps lay down a skeleton that is characteristic of their species.
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