Talk:Metamorphosis

message: : Please check it as English is not my native tongue. - Carciofus 20:20, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added some info on insect metamorphosis 

message: "Many observations have indicated that cell death plays a considerable role during physiological processes of multicellular organisms, particularly during embryogenesis and metamorphosis."
This seems like a tautology.  It seems evident that cell death would play an important role in the transformation of a multicellular organism.  And certainly it cannot do so for a single-cellular organism.  If it is not so simple, can someone explain? -Pgan002 09:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they mean massive cell death, in this case of nearly the whole body.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 22:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It means apoptosis, which is controlled cell death and an important tool for development, but not the only one. Apoptosis is necesarry to get rid of specialized strucutures not necessary in a later stage. Cell death is not really self evident, gradual development can involve more and more specialization of cells, not necessarily cell death.Viridiflavus (talk) 21:17, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cell death 

message: I've requested that Metamorphosis be moved to Metamorphosis (disambiguation) so that Metamorphosis (biology) can be moved there, per Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary_topic.  Please discuss here. --jwandersTalk 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested Move 

message: I have removed the section on Metamorphosis across kingdoms. It is not appropriate to copy directly from the source, even if it is cited. If there is a question about the definition of metamorphosis, it should be included in the article, with the citation used, but it needs to be paraphrased, and writen  in the same type of prose as the rest of the article. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 12:42, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed section 

message: Is there a verb for this? Like "The caterpillar metamorphs into a butterfly" or something like that? 84.59.218.98 (talk) 23:43, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: wiktionary:metamorphose William Avery (talk) 06:45, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verb? 

message: This is a major oversight. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absolutely needs a section on moth/butterfly metamorphosis 

message: What would be really interesting is the state of knowledge re: genetic implications. Is the genome identical between forms but differently expressed? Or radically different? How different?
Is the phenomena a high level or recent development in evolutionary terms? Or does it hold within it processes so elementary and ancient as to be scarcely abstracted above the intrinsic nature of life - or the "living" cell - itself?
Is there a sense in which one code is a parasite of the other, for instance?
And what of plants? And alternating phenotypes. Such as the ferns that exhibit alternate form between generations? Is this metamorphosis or a different phenomenon?
Is there any analogy with vertebrate reproduction; eg humans "alternating" between somatic form, and the gamede form - ovum or spermatozoan?
Is metamorphosis not a top priority in terms of genetic research? Because to my scientifically-trained mind the implications of a better understanding of this phenomenon are potentially "rosetta stones" to further understanding genetics.
Any other lateral thinkers out there?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.0.170 (talk) 04:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implications with respect to genetic research 

message: Sorry I don't know how to ad a reference to Truman's Scientific Guide, Chapter 3, page 25; even if ametabolous is molting without metamorphosis, its considered as a category. I don't want to ruin the entire page, so please make a reference in the ametabolous section to the info above. The complete name of the book is; Truman's Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations, seventh edition.   Thank you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuanMAF (talk • contribs) 17:44, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metamorphosis categories 

message: Hahaha 223.24.190.108 (talk) 15:26, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Science 

message: Advantages of metamorphosis 105.161.170.47 (talk) 06:09, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biology 

message: Comment 96.60.1.145 (talk) 20:09, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I learned a lot from just this single page! I love Wikipedia,!!!