Plant morphogenesis is brought about chiefly through differential growth.
Antithetically, where more common polygenetic morphogenesis occurs, some mixture of tectonic, marine, or climatic effects is superimposed on the setting, and a hybrid suite of landforms results.
Volvox colonies were first recorded by Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1700 and are widely studied as a genetic model of morphogenesis (how organisms develop specialized cells and tissues).
He wrote his doctoral thesis on the morphogenesis of rotiferans (microscopic aquatic organisms), an area of scientific interest he pursued for the next 10 years.
Pericyclic cells about to produce a root primordium synthesize ribonucleic acid, in anticipation of the period of growth and morphogenesis that will result in a new apex.
Animal morphogenesis is accomplished by growth and by cell movement.
Retinoic acid is essential for normal cell morphogenesis, growth, and differentiation.
British mathematician and logician Alan Turing, often called the father of computing, used early computers to implement a model of biological morphogenesis (the development of pattern and form in living organisms) in the early 1950s, shortly before his death.
Despite his premature death aged 41, Turing was so prolific in the fields of mathematics, computer science and mathematical biology, specifically morphogenesis, that the Science Museum dedicated a whole exhibition to him upon the centenary of his birth last year.
Turing not only pushed forward the arrival of the computer, but also the link between maths, chemistry and biology in his work on "morphogenesis", studying patterns of growth in nature.
