Metamorphosis is:

A. changing of one body form to another within a species, such as the change from an aquatic tadpole to a terrestrial frog
B. an intermediate condition, such as length of legs in mice between longer legs of some mice and shorter legs in others, a condition caused by Hox genes
C. the developmental changing of a scale to a feather
D. the evolutionary transition from fishes to amphibians
E. none of the choices provided


A. changing of one body form to another within a species, such as the change from an aquatic tadpole to a terrestrial frog

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