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Any metamorphosis involves an organism changing it's basic shape or "morphology." A sudden or abrupt metamorphosis is fast and dramatic...e.g. the change from a caterpilar into a butterfly. A gradual metamorphosis is one in which the organism experiences no abrupt transformation, but instead goes through stages that appear very similar to one another. This slow transformation is seen in most mammals, as well as reptiles, Spiders, and a few precocial insects. When they hatch, precocial offspring appear and function very similarly to their adult counterparts. As they grow larger, they shed their exoskeleton, becoming more complex and mature with each molt--each of these stages is called an "instar"--but during its metamorphosis, it never changes it's basic form (i.e. it doesn't start out aquatic like a fish or tadpole, then grow lungs, like a frog or toad.always "looks like" a grasshopper.

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