Morphogenesis

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Morphogenesis (also called the morphogenic process) is the process of gradual changes in the structure of an organism throughout life. It includes all processes associated with the formation and development of organs, tissues, cells and molecules. Let's figure out what morphogenesis is?

The source of morphogenesis is genes. Thanks to genes, information about the structure and functions of the body is transmitted from parents to offspring through the mechanisms of heredity. Genes are sections of DNA that contain information about the structure of a protein molecule or an entire cell. Genes also determine the phenotype of an organism - its appearance, size, shape, etc.

In simpler terms, all the smallest parts of the body have their own genes, which determine how each of them will function, grow, divide, be removed from the body or retained inside. These little things we call genes are present within every cellular strand of DNA in our blueprint for inheritance, called the genome. The genomes are almost identical in all people on Earth, although sometimes they may have slight differences.

The processes of the initial formation of the structure of a new body can, apparently, be likened to the transformation of one substance and their composition into many units of material, differing from each other in chemical composition, physical properties and functions.