Multiple choice

The corals suffering the stress of pollution, overfishing, and climatic change are more susceptible to get affected from

  1. black band disease

  2. skeletal eroding band disease

  3. white band disease

  4. yellow-band disease

  5. white pox disease
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Yellow-band disease is a disease that attacks colonies of coral at a time when coral is already under stress from pollution, overfishing, and climate change. It is characterised by large blotches or patches of bleached, yellowed tissue on Caribbean scleractinian corals.

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