A body plan, Bauplan (pl. German: Baupläne), or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals. The vertebrates...

that lived on the bottom of the ocean floor. The fossils have a fractal body plan and were frond shaped, meaning they resembled broad-leafed plants such...

takes up space Body (biology), the physical material of an organism Body plan, the physical features shared by a group of animals Human body, the entire...

thought of as groupings of organisms based on general specialization of body plan. At its most basic, a phylum can be defined in two ways: as a group of...

Segmentation in biology is the division of some animal and plant body plans into a linear series of repetitive segments that may or may not be interconnected...

highly proliferative clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The vast majority belong to two large superphyla: the protostomes, which...

images of each other) during embryonic development. This means their body plans are laid around a longitudinal axis (rostral–caudal axis) with a front...

Supernumerary body parts are most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan. Body parts...

thought of as a way of grouping organisms according to their body plan.: 33  A body plan refers to a blueprint which describes the shape or morphology...

Three physical features separate insects from other arthropods: they have a body divided into three regions (called tagmata) (head, thorax, and abdomen),...