The term ‘coral bleaching' refers to:

a. the loss of a protistan symbiont by a reef-building coral
b. the growth of new cnidarians within a reef
c. the color change in coral reefs as they become mature
d. an invasion of a coral reef by a colorless protistan as opposed to a green, photosynthetic one
e. the loss of the calcium carbonate skeleton of cnidarian polyps


a

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