The coral reef structure buffers shorelines against waves, storms, and floods, helping to prevent loss of life, property damage, and erosion. When reefs are damaged or destroyed, the absence of this natural barrier can increase the damage to coastal communities from normal wave action and violent storms.
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A compound is organic if it contains carbon covalently bonded to other atoms. Most often, the other atoms include hydrogen, oxygen, and/or nitrogen. A few carbon compounds, such as simple oxides (e.g. CO2) and cyanides (e.g. KCN) are excluded arbitrarily.
Sometimes genes change their form in a process without a reason and it's called spontaneous mutation. Spontaneous mutations<span> occur with non-zero probability. And they occur even in an uncontaminated cell. They are characterized by the specific changes.</span>
A blue shift is any decrease in wavelength, with a corresponding increase in frequency, of an electromagnetic wave; the opposite effect is referred to as red shift. In visible light, this shifts the color from the red end of the spectrum to the blue end.