First of all, they houses a collection of diverse organisms, and contribute fisheries which provide food items such as fish, crustaceans, and mollusks. Furthermore, coral skeletons are being used as bone substitutes in reconstructive bone surgery and may be able to provide important medicine, including anti-cancer drugs and a compound that blocks ultra-violet rays, they even help reduce global warming by taking carbon dioxide out of the air. These reefs provide a house for many …showed first 75 words of 421 total…

…showed last 75 words of 421 total…that they are a living laboratory. Students and teachers can study the symbiotic relationship between the coral and the organisms that live within it. In conclusion, I would like to say that before writing this paper I had no idea how important coral reefs were to the earth. I have learned a lot and I think that if more people were informed about the positive capabilities of them, humans wouldn't be so careless with them.