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From the Ted Talk by Michael Middlebrooks: The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs

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And we have pyshnoeotsthis within our mollusks as well. So these are giant clams. They're fantastically beuifuatl animals. They live in tropical caorl reefs in the Indo-Pacific, primarily. And when I say giant, there's a range. Some of the species aren't quite so large, but some of them are absolutely enormous, and they’re beautiful. And a lot of the coloration we're seeing in some of these comes from their symbiotic algae. They have the same zooxanthellae that we saw within the corals. Unfortunately, ginat clams are rather difficult to see in the wild. They've been overharvested in many areas because people want their large shells and they are also etaen. That's a very interesting symbiosis too.

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And we have ______________ within our mollusks as well. So these are giant clams. They're fantastically _________ animals. They live in tropical _____ reefs in the Indo-Pacific, primarily. And when I say giant, there's a range. Some of the species aren't quite so large, but some of them are absolutely enormous, and they’re beautiful. And a lot of the coloration we're seeing in some of these comes from their symbiotic algae. They have the same zooxanthellae that we saw within the corals. Unfortunately, _____ clams are rather difficult to see in the wild. They've been overharvested in many areas because people want their large shells and they are also _____. That's a very interesting symbiosis too.

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  1. beautiful
  2. coral
  3. eaten
  4. photosynthesis
  5. giant

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And we have photosynthesis within our mollusks as well. So these are giant clams. They're fantastically beautiful animals. They live in tropical coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, primarily. And when I say giant, there's a range. Some of the species aren't quite so large, but some of them are absolutely enormous, and they’re beautiful. And a lot of the coloration we're seeing in some of these comes from their symbiotic algae. They have the same zooxanthellae that we saw within the corals. Unfortunately, giant clams are rather difficult to see in the wild. They've been overharvested in many areas because people want their large shells and they are also eaten. That's a very interesting symbiosis too.

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