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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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"The whole organism is an integrated, complex morphology, and each of the individual pieces is interrelated to every other part in the body," Berv said.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

"Our study shows that advanced correlative methods can reveal changes in this hidden organization that are not apparent from morphology alone."

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Also, these issues are not confined to one make or model but to the morphology.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.

From Science Magazine Dec. 2, 2024

In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

However, the early evolution of snakes and the changes in their morphologies over time has been long debated in the field of biology.

From Science Daily Sep. 29, 2023

We can select and generate target morphologies by design.

From Scientific American May 31, 2023

Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2022

From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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