| metamorphosis |
The "cycle of change." Some animals go through metamorphosis, or stages of a life cycle. With insects, most usually go through a four stage cycle (1 = egg, 2 = larva, 3 = pupa, 4 = adult). This is called complete metamorphosis. For other insects, incomplete metamorphosis is when the cycle only has three stages (1 = egg, 2 = nymph, 3 = adult). Aquatic insects go through incomplete metamorphosis because life is too difficult in the water to have a pupa (resting) stage. ...
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| metamorphosis |
The process of changing from one form to another; eg, in insects, from the larval stage to the pupal stage to the reproductive adult stage.
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| metabolism |
All of the processes or chemical changes in an organism or a single cell by which food is built up (anabolism) into living protoplasm and by which protoplasm is broken down (catabolism) into simpler compounds with the exchange of energy.
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| meta- |
A position on a phenyl ring - see ortho.
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| metamorphopsia |
Wavy distortion of vision.
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