Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is false about corals?

  1. Some corals can catch small fish and plankton.

  2. Corals typically live in compact colonies of many non-identical individual polyps.

  3. A coral head is a colony of myriad genetically identical polyps.

  4. Individual heads grow by asexual reproduction of polyps.

  5. An exoskeleton is excreted near the base.
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Explanation

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps.

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