Meanings
- uncountablebiologyModification to an embryonic form.
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Matsuda (1987, p. 28) reviewed the reallocation processes within organisms associated with a life-history specialization called “embryonization” (growth of larvae within eggs), representing an evolutionary change from production of many small to fewer large eggs. In Hydra, embryonization leads to the production of a single large egg via adsorption of neighboring oocytes.
2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
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