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Craig Downs found that these organisms were damaged by oxybenzones. Ruth Gates, the first female president of an organization named for these organisms, used “assisted evolution” to create “super” examples more resistant to environmental stressors. Chocolate heir (20[1])Frank Mars is leading an effort to use star-shaped rebar to restore some of these organisms in Indonesia (20[5])damaged by (20[1])blasting. (20[5])A tissue (20[1])loss (20[2])disease affecting the Scleractinia (20[1])(“skle-RACK-TIN-ee-uh”) or (*) “stony” (0[1])variety (10[2])of these organisms was first observed near Miami. (10[5])Cloud brightening can reduce the need (10[3])for these organisms to expel photosynthetic (10[1])algae (0[1])due to (10[1])high temperatures in a process (10[1])known (10[1])as bleaching. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name these organisms that slowly built a “Great Barrier” off the coast of Australia. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: corals [accept coral reef; accept or stony corals or hard corals; accept Scleractinia before mention; prompt on reef or barrier reef; prompt on atolls] (Gates was president of the International Society for Reef Studies.)
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