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Most eudicots and monocots are modular organisms with indeterminate body plans.

The last common ancestor of all arthropods is reconstructed as a modular organism with each module covered by its own sclerite (armor plate) and bearing a pair of biramous limbs.

"What would you say about the evolution of senescence if instead of working with insects, you worked with modular organisms, which is what lichen are?" Daniel Doak, a University of Colorado ecologist, agrees that the question is worth asking.

Other transplant experiments with modular organisms (e.g., the sponge Halichondria panacea) exhibit variable responses to environmental stimuli [ 5].

Colonial, modular organisms, including most sponges, cnidarians, bryozoans, and many terrestrial and marine plants, are composed of repeated building units (modules such as polyps, zooids, etc).

that govern marine modular organisms.

Nevertheless, the integration or decomposition of modular features at the intraspecific level is unknown in marine modular organisms.

The observed variation in E. flexuosa resembles findings on phenotypic plasticity of other modular organisms.

Long-lived modular organisms can accumulate somatic mutations over their lifetime enabling them to adjust to a changing environment.

Marine modular organisms such as corals are variations on a single theme: their modules can couple or decouple, allowing them to adapt to all marine benthic environments.

Gorgonian corals resemble plants in many ways and morphologically they are modular organisms where integration/disintegration can occur in response to environmental gradients [ 61].