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Morphology (biology)
Study of external forms and structures of organisms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the term in biology. For other uses, see Morphology.
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.[1]
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This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, color, pattern, size), i.e. external morphology (or eidonomy), as well as the form and structure of internal parts like bones and organs, i.e. internal morphology (or anatomy). This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function. Morphology is a branch of life science dealing with the study of gross structure of an organism or taxon and its component parts.