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what special ability does the noctiluca have? what is this special ability called? how does this special ability happen scientifically?
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what special ability does the noctiluca have? what is this special ability called? how does this special ability happen scientifically?

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they glow blue and it happens whens they are in groups
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It can glow in the dark. The Noctiluca exhibits bioluminescence/mareel when disturbed, this is produced throughout the cytoplasm, by a luciferin-luciferase reaction in thousands of spherically shaped organelles, called scintillons.
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