"Corals live in a symbiotic alliance with tiny algae called zooxanthellae. Thanks to photosynthesis, the algae capture sunlight and use it to turn carbon dioxide into organic carbon, with oxygen as a waste product. of the process. The coral then uses the oxygen in its own metabolic cycle."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 6–7
"Corals live in a symbiotic alliance with tiny algae called zooxanthellae. Thanks to photosynthesis, the algae capture sunlight and use it to turn carbon dioxide into organic carbon, with oxygen as a waste product. of the process. The coral then uses the oxygen in its own metabolic cycle."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 6–7