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What is it called when an animal changes form during its life cycle?
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal’s body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
What is life cycle of an organism?
A life cycle is defined as the developmental stages that occur during an organism’s lifetime. In general, the life cycles of plants and animals have three basic stages including a fertilized egg or seed, immature juvenile, and adult. The time an organism spends at each stage also varies.
Which is the process wherein changes in the form of structure of the animals happen as they become adults?
Many animals begin life as smaller, less capable forms of the adult. As they develop, they grow larger and become more independent (for example, humans or robins). Some animals change dramatically in structure and function during their life cycle in a process called metamorphosis.
What is called the change in animal body?
the change in animals body is called Chromatophores.
What do we call the change in the form or structure of animals following the birth?
metamorphosis
metamorphosis, in biology, striking change of form or structure in an individual after hatching or birth. Hormones called molting and juvenile hormones, which are not species specific, apparently regulate the changes.
Which of the following organisms undergo metamorphosis?
Answer : Butterfly, silk moth, frog, housefly and mosquito undergo metamorphosis while cow, human, hen and monkey do not undergo metamorphosis.
What is retrograde metamorphosis?
‘Retrogressive metamorphosis’ means degenerative changes wherein an active larva transforms into a sedentary adult. For example, in Urochordata, the larva bears all advanced characters of Chordata but after metamorphosis, the adult loses its chordate characters. Let us consider an example of Herdmania, a Urochordate.