Что (кто) такое metamorphosis - определение

PROFOUND CHANGE IN BODY STRUCTURE DURING THE POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGANISM

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metamorphosis

1) to undergo metamorphosis

2) a metamorphosis into

metamorphosis

(metamorphoses)

When a metamorphosis occurs, a person or thing develops and changes into something completely different. (FORMAL)

...his metamorphosis from a republican to a democrat...

= transformation

N-VAR

Metamorphosis

·noun Change of form, or structure; transformation.

II. Metamorphosis ·noun The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.

III. Metamorphosis ·noun A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, ·etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. ·see Transformation.

Википедия

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some insects, fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms, and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is often accompanied by a change of nutrition source or behavior. Animals can be divided into species that undergo complete metamorphosis ("holometaboly"), incomplete metamorphosis ("hemimetaboly"), or no metamorphosis ("ametaboly").

Scientific usage of the term is technically precise, and it is not applied to general aspects of cell growth, including rapid growth spurts. Generally organisms with a larva stage undergo metamorphosis, and during metamorphosis the organism loses larval characteristics. References to "metamorphosis" in mammals are imprecise and only colloquial, but historically idealist ideas of transformation and morphology, as in Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants, have influenced the development of ideas of evolution.

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