Question

What is metamorphosis? Give examples.

NCERT Class VIII
Science - Main Course Book

Chapter 9. Reproduction in Animals

Answer 1

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. Someinsects, fishes, amphibians, molluscs, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is usually accompanied by a change of habitat or behavior.

Answer 2

Metamorphosis is a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the history of an organism. Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuou and relatively abrupt changes in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.It is a complete change of form or tansformation of the organism.
Some inscects like catterpillars, amphibians like frogs does metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is derived from a greek word which means transformation.

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