Jellyfish Summary

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In the second part of the lecture, lecturer Michael N Dawson shared with us the information in his research on Jellyfish. Before he jumped into talking about this topic, he first mentioned about the formation of marine lakes. Prior attending to this lecture, I have never heard of Marine Lakes and did not have too in depth knowledge about Jellyfish. However, after I listened to what lecturer Dawson’s presentation, I think the formation of marine lake are fascinating.
When see water raised, rushed into cave and brought in animals, marine lakes are formed. For example, as the sea water rises, the marine lakes that are formed later differs than the earlier formed ones. Each marine lakes have chemical differences. Since marine lakes are isolated

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