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Set of morphological features common to members of a phylum of animals
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
Body_plan
Structure and development of early multicellular organisms
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
Precambrian_body_plans
Evolution of crustaceans into crab-like forms
convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by Lancelot Alexander
Carcinisation
Ways that fish move around
or monoplane body plan, only the pectoral fins are enlarged to provide lift. Fish with this body plan tend to have a more streamlined body, higher aspect
Fish_locomotion
Taxonomic rank
without any formal ranking of group size. A definition of a phylum based on body plan has been proposed by paleontologists Graham Budd and Sören Jensen (as
Phylum
Animals with embryonic bilateral symmetry
by bilateral symmetry during embryonic development. This means their body plans are laid around a longitudinal axis with a front (or "head") and a rear
Bilateria
Topics referred to by the same term
takes up space Body plan, the physical features shared by a group of animals Body (biology), the physical material of an organism Human body, the entire
Body
Taxon of frondose Ediacaran fossils
Structurally, these are tubes held up by a semi-rigid organic skeleton. This body plan could have been formed using fairly simple developmental patterns. Rangeomorphs
Rangeomorph
Comparison of swimming and flying, evolution and biophysics
or monoplane body plan, only the pectoral fins are enlarged to provide lift. Fish with this body plan tend to have a more streamlined body, higher aspect
Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water
Tradeoffs_for_locomotion_in_air_and_water
Division of some animal and plant body plans into a series of segments
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
Segmentation_(biology)
Description of the physical form of insects
Three physical features separate insects from other arthropods: they have a body divided into three regions (called tagmata) (head, thorax, and abdomen),
Insect_morphology
Suborder of hydrozoans
conifera. In Japanese, it is called 嚢泳 (Nōei). The typical cystonect body plan has a pneumatophore (float) and siphosome (line of polyps) but no nectosome
Cystonectae
Growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan
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
Supernumerary_body_part
Biological kingdom
whose members have a bilaterally symmetric and significantly cephalised body plan, and the vast majority of bilaterians belong to two large clades: the
Animal
Entity with human form or characteristics
environmental and physical constraints act on all life, there is an "optimum" body plan that life will inevitably evolve toward, with evolution bound to stumble
Humanoid
2009 film by Karyn Kusama
Jennifer's Body is a 2009 American comedy horror film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody. Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny
Jennifer's_Body
Phylum of microscopic animals
relationship of tardigrade body segments to those of other Panarthropoda. A 2023 review concludes that despite the diversity of body plan among the Panarthropoda
Tardigrade
Digestive tract waste expulsion opening
important evolutionary developments: the bilaterian body plan, the coelom, and metamerism, in which the body was built of repeated "modules" which could later
Anus
Organisms that live in salt water
be thought of as a way of grouping organisms according to their body plan. A body plan refers to a blueprint which describes the shape or morphology of
Marine_life
Class of echinoderms
organisms. The echinoderms are mainly distinguished from other phyla by their body plan and organization. The earliest sea cucumbers are known from the middle
Sea_cucumber
Subphylum of chordates
Unlike other Cambrian animals, these groups had the basic vertebrate body plan: a notochord, rudimentary vertebrae, and a well-defined head and tail
Vertebrate
Index of animals with the same common name
underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body. Tubeworms are found among the following taxa:
Tube_worm
Standard terms for unambiguous description of relative placement of body parts
point of attachment. In all cases, the usage of terms is dependent on the body plan of the organism. Anatomical terms of location in a dog Anatomical terms
Anatomical_terms_of_location
Group of genes
homeobox genes, are a group of related genes that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals. Hox proteins encode
Hox_gene
Species of mammal (mustelid)
Previously thought of as conspecific with the stoat (M. erminea), they have a body plan typical of weasels and are native to most of North America. There are
American_ermine
Marine animals without a vertebral column
on internal fluid pressure to support their bodies. Marine invertebrates have a large variety of body plans, and have been categorized into over 30 phyla
Marine_invertebrates
Subphylum of arthropods
Hexapods are named for their most distinctive feature: a three-part body plan with a consolidated thorax and three pairs of legs. Most other arthropods
Hexapoda
Type of economic system
economic plans and production plans. A planned economy may use centralized, decentralized, participatory or Soviet-type forms of economic planning. The level
Planned_economy
Opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth
vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan of humans and most animals. In arthropods, the jaws are chitinous and
Jaw
Raptorial winged insects
are similar in body plan, though usually lighter in build; however, the wings of most dragonflies are held flat and away from the body, while damselflies
Dragonfly
Shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of turtles
but instead of experiencing complete loss of the sternum, the turtle body plan repurposes the bone into the form of the plastron. However, other analyses
Turtle_shell
Species of flatworm
research on developmental biology and the evolution of the bilaterian body plan, it has since expanded to other important fields of research such as sexual
Macrostomum_lignano
Largest class of crustaceans
terrestrial habitats. They are segmented animals, united by a common body plan comprising 20 body segments (rarely 21), and divided into a head, thorax, and abdomen
Malacostraca
Geometric symmetry in living beings
of animals which do not show any symmetry (i.e. are asymmetrical), the body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit, and are defined by, some form
Symmetry_in_biology
Extinct species of archaic human
2 million years. It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and gait, to leave Africa and colonize Asia and Europe, and to wield fire
Homo_erectus
Phylum of animals having a dorsal nerve cord
All chordates are based on a bilateral body plan. All chordates are coelomates, and have a fluid-filled body cavity (coelom) with a complete serosal
Chordate
Shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa
homologous structures as meaning that the organisms concerned shared a body plan from a common ancestor, and that taxa were branches of a single tree of
Homology_(biology)
Small eight-legged arthropod
tiny, less than 1 mm (0.04 in) in length, and have a simple, unsegmented body plan. The small size of most species makes them easily overlooked; some species
Mite
Extinct phylum of triradially symmetrical animals
animals that were originally classified into the Cnidaria. The basic body plan of trilobozoans is often a triradial or radial sphere-shaped form with
Trilobozoa
Suborder of fishes
thought to be a skate that had convergently evolved a highly stingray-like body plan, although its exact taxonomic placement is still uncertain. True stingray
Stingray
Discrimination based on appearance
public space." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14.2 (1996): 221-240. "'Is that your d***': Bella Thorne body shamed for posing in see-through
Body_shaming
British personal trainer and fitness writer
Body Plan, in collaboration with Joe Warner, the Editor of Men's Fitness. His first two books, Men's Fitness 12 Week Body Plan and Your Ultimate Body
Nick Mitchell (personal trainer)
Nick_Mitchell_(personal_trainer)
Infraorder of crustaceans
have independently undergone carcinisation, acquiring the armoured crab body plan with a concealed tail. It is the sister group to the "true crabs" or Brachyura
Anomura
Subphylum of arthropods
chelicerates have segmented bodies with jointed limbs, all covered in a cuticle made of chitin and proteins. The chelicerate body plan consists of two tagmata
Chelicerata
Limitations in evolution
terrestrial vertebrates have a body plan that consist of four limbs. The phylogenetic inertia hypothesis suggests that this body plan is observed, not because
Phylogenetic_inertia
Order of algae
or bodies. Cells that can divide in a third plane potentially allow for the organism to develop a more complex body plan, and diversification of body plans
Ectocarpales
Extinct genus of sponges
osculum-like holes connecting the interior to the outside, similar in body plan to most poriferans. Otavia antiqua fossils have more complex internal
Otavia
Species of coral
or to capture prey. Like other Cnidarians, they exhibit an oral-aboral body plan which is characterized by one side containing their mouth and the other
Cycloseris_curvata
Embryology concept
definition, the somite is a homologously-paired structure in an animal body plan, such as is visible in annelids and arthropods. The mesoderm forms at
Somite
Clade of the first four-limbed vertebrates and their descendants
lobe-finned fishes and true four-limbed tetrapods, though most still fit the body plan expected of other lobe-finned fishes. The oldest fossils of four-limbed
Tetrapod
Part of the body that forms the supporting structure
Kawashima-Ohya, Yoshie; Narita, Yuichi; Kuratani, Shigeru (1 March 2012). "Body plan of turtles: an anatomical, developmental and evolutionary perspective"
Skeleton
Genus of tardigrades
organisms. Tardigrades belonging to the Bertolanius genus follow the same body plan as all other currently identified tardigrades, which consists of a head
Bertolanius
2023 Chinese science fiction television series
Three-Body (Chinese: 三体) is a Chinese science fiction television series adapted from the novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which was first published
Three-Body
Polysaccharides found in animal tissue
negative charge making them highly hydrophilic, they are abundant in body plan elements providing lubrication or cushioning, such as mucous membranes
Glycosaminoglycan
Topics referred to by the same term
Vehicle body part, manufactured components of automobiles Body (disambiguation) Body plan, morphological features shared by a group of related species
Body_part
2025 Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement
The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address
Gaza_peace_plan
Phylum of animals
ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm). Their body plan is acoelomate – they lack a coelom – do not have a true body cavity. Also, an excretory system is absent
Xenacoelomorpha
Comparison of organism developmental processes
patterns in time and space which shape the embryo, and ultimately form the body plan of the organism. Another is that species do not differ much in their structural
Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary_developmental_biology
Evolutionary trend
a body plan with a front end that encounters stimuli first as the animal moves forwards, and accordingly has evolved to contain many of the body's sense
Cephalization
Suborder of siphonophores
Organisms in the suborder Physonectae follow the classic Siphonophore body plan. They are almost all pelagic, and are composed of a colony of specialized
Physonectae
1978 film by Philip Kaufman
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science-fiction psychological horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W. D. Richter, and starring
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)
Vertebrates without legs or fins
Many vertebrates are limbless, limb-reduced, or apodous, with a body plan consisting of a head and vertebral column, but no adjoining limbs such as legs
Limbless_vertebrate
Animals without a vertebral column
have bodies composed of differentiated tissues. There is also typically a digestive chamber with one or two openings to the exterior. The body plans of
Invertebrate
Hypothesis in developmental biology
dissected a crayfish (an arthropod) and compared it with the vertebrate body plan. The idea was heavily criticised, but periodically resurfaced, and is
Inversion (evolutionary biology)
Inversion_(evolutionary_biology)
German deployment plan against France
The Schlieffen Plan (German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) is a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence
Schlieffen_Plan
Clade of animals comprising vertebrates and tunicates
"A new interpretation of Pikaia reveals the origins of the chordate body plan". Current Biology. 34 (13): 2980–2989.e2. Bibcode:2024CBio...34.2980M
Olfactores
Organ central to the nervous system
animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body plan (that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each
Brain
Topics referred to by the same term
Supernumerary body part, most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan Supernumerary
Supernumerary
Species of gastropod
as the sea floor is where this species finds its prey. Their flattened body plan allows for maneuverability into small spaces common in rocky intertidal
Diamondback_tritonia
Central cavity of sponges
(ostia) and exits through the larger opening (osculum). Depending on the body plan of the sponge (which can be asconoid, syconoid, or leuconoid), the spongocoel
Spongocoel
Genus of gastropods
It is notable for being an open-ocean hunter that resembles a fish in body plan and locomotion, an example of convergent evolution. P. atlantica occurs
Phylliroe
Species of jawless fish
abyssal Pacific Ocean, near the ocean floor. It is a jawless fish and has a body plan that resembles early Paleozoic fishes. They can excrete copious amounts
Pacific_hagfish
Morphological pattern in fishes, named for and typified by the eels
anguilliform fish achieve their distinctive movement. The anguilliform body plan demonstrates convergent evolution, where distantly related lineages have
Anguilliformity
Origin and diversification of fish through geologic time
fauna that dominated the Cambrian, these groups had the basic vertebrate body plan: a notochord, rudimentary vertebrae, and a well-defined head and tail
Evolution_of_fish
British Second World War deception operation
in the Mediterranean, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the plan began by transporting the body to the southern coast of Spain by submarine and releasing
Operation_Mincemeat
Historical taxonomic rank
taxonomic rank that was used to classify animals with radially symmetric body plans. The term Radiata is no longer accepted, as it united several different
Radiata
Family of ray-finned fish
jawfish species are small fishes (up to 10 cm or 3.9 in) with an elongated body plan. A few species are larger, such as for example the aptly named giant jawfish
Opistognathidae
Order of crustacean
called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in soft
Cumacea
Family of rodents
America; an example of convergence Kultarr – a marsupial with a similar body plan and coloration; another example of convergence; they use quadrupedal locomotion
Jerboa
Phylum of microscopic animals
species of gastrotrichs have been described. Gastrotrichs have a simple body plan with a head region, with a brain and sensory organs, and a trunk with
Gastrotrich
Formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control
designs and purpose. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), a project plan is "...a formal, approved document used to guide both
Project_plan
Extinct giant shark species
elongated body plan hypothesis, and this resulted in a similar body length estimate of 16.4 metres (54 ft) and a significantly lower body mass estimate
Megalodon
The arthropod body plan consists of segments, each with a pair of appendages. Arthropods are bilaterally symmetrical and their body possesses an external
List_of_arthropod_orders
Extinct genus of radiodont
radiodont body plan. Initially interpreted as a jellyfish and a sea cucumber respectively, they were eventually shown to be the mouthparts and body of a single
Peytoia
Family of annelids
is usually visible through the body wall. Syllis ramosa was the first polychaete discovered to have a branching body plan. Later, two species of Ramisyllis
Syllidae
Extinct genus of marine invertebrates
evolutionary history of echinoderms, as it possesses a pentaradial (five-fold) body plan while maintaining characteristics of more primitive, spiral-shaped ancestors
Helicocystis
Supranational political and economic union
Community, which were established by treaties. These increasingly amalgamated bodies grew, with their legal successor, the EU, both in size through the accessions
European_Union
American sci-fi television series
3 Body Problem is an American science fiction television series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo. It is the third adaptation of
3_Body_Problem_(TV_series)
Clade of reptiles
built sprawling reptiles with moderately long, tapering snouts. This body plan, similar to that of modern monitor lizards, is also shared by Triassic
Archosauromorpha
Shrines in Shaktism, goddess-focused Hinduism
carried Sati's body, reminiscing about their moments as a couple, and roamed around the universe with it. Vishnu cut her body into 108 body parts, using
Shakta_pithas
Order of millipedes
order of millipedes readily distinguished by a unique body plan consisting of a soft, non-calcified body ornamented with tufts of bristles. These features
Polyxenida
1787 proposal for state representation in the US government
states proposed an alternative plan that would have retained the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation
New_Jersey_Plan
manufacturing and marketing points of view in that they had the same basic body plan but could be differentiated by one or two distinguishing accessories.
List_of_The_Smurfs_characters
Association or collection of individuals
fealty, for an invisible body cannot be in person, nor can swear, it is not subject to imbecilities, or death of the natural, body, and divers other cases
Company
German invasion of France in 1940
The plan for the invasion of the Low Countries and France was called Fall Gelb (Case Yellow or the Manstein plan). Fall Rot (Case Red) was planned to finish
Battle_of_France
Body horror film by Kevin Smith
Tusk is a 2014 American independent black comedy body horror film written and directed by Kevin Smith, based on a story from his SModcast podcast. The
Tusk_(2014_film)
Extinct genus of highly unusual stingray
is notable for its bizarre body plan, which has no analog in any other stingray, fossil or modern. It had a disc-shaped body akin to modern benthic stingrays
Lessiniabatis
1951–1953 Soviet anti-semitic campaign
hospital". Timashuk "exposed their criminal designs" and as such the security bodies of the Soviet Union were made aware of the existence of the alleged conspiracy
Doctors'_plot
Order of cartilaginous fishes
Jurassic of primarily Europe, convergently evolved a guitarfish-like body plan, but likely diverged prior to rhinopristiforms. Species in the order Rhinopristiformes
Rhinopristiformes
Extinct class of marine invertebrates
Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2792.. Nanglu
Ophiocistioidea
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