Question

Which of the following is the correct explanation of the word, 'Corals'?

• A. They are group of Islands.
• B. It is a Peninsula.
• C. Short living micro-organism.
• D. They are rocks.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Short living micro-organism.

• Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.
  
• They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps.
  
• Coral, a sessile animal, relies on its relationship with plant-like algae to build the largest structures of biological origin on Earth.