Sentence examples for undergo metamorphosis from inspiring English sources

Most species undergo metamorphosis, but scientists aren't sure why the process evolved.

Invertebrate animals have a rich variety of life cycles, especially among those forms that undergo metamorphosis, a radical physical change.

The beetle's larvae drill through trees' bark into the wood, where they undergo metamorphosis into large black beetles with bright white spots and long elegant antennas.

During early development, animals are constantly eliminating unnecessary neuronal material; the nervous systems of insects that undergo metamorphosis are altered as they transition.

Little is known of the biology of the oceanic forms, but some certainly undergo metamorphosis, especially the Oreosomatidae, whose larvae are studded with large, spinous tubercles.

Those that develop from eggs with moderate amounts of yolk hatch sooner, usually into free-living larvae; in this case the larvae transform, or undergo metamorphosis, into adults.

When a lamprey larva undergoes metamorphosis into an adult lamprey, the endostyle breaks into fragments.

After a period of growth, the tadpole undergoes metamorphosis, in which the tail is lost and limbs appear.

The cyprid then undergoes metamorphosis into a juvenile barnacle, and it can never again alter its location.

In the last larval stage, juvenile hormone is no longer produced, and the insect undergoes metamorphosis into an adult.

The trochophore (free-swimming) larva, which results from spiral cleavage of the zygote (the cell formed by the fusion of two gametes), undergoes metamorphosis to its characteristic shape.