Metamorphosis

• Title

  Metamorphosis

• Definition

  Change in the morphology and habits of an animal as a part of its normal life cycle, e.g., the changes in a butterfly as it develops from an egg to a chrysalis (= pupa), and finally to an adult or a tadpole that develops into a frog.

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