An organic substance or protein that forms the flexible skeletal material in gorgonian corals.
From 'gorgonia' (the coral) + '-in' (a suffix used for chemical compounds and proteins). The '-in' ending is common in biochemistry.
Gorgonin is what makes sea fans flexible instead of brittle—it's like the coral's version of our tendons, showing that evolution finds similar solutions across very different organisms!
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