Thursday, May 5, 2022

Life cycles and the evolution of developmental patterns

 When we consider a dog, for instance, we usually picture an adult. But the dog is a “dog” from the moment of fertilization of a dog egg by a dog sperm. It remains a dog even as a senescent dying hound. Therefore, the dog is actually the entire life cycle of the animal, from fertilization through death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10044/

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