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A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...
Viral shedding is the expulsion and release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host cell infection. Once replication has been completed and the host cell is exhausted of all resources in making viral progeny, the viruses may begin to leave the cell by several methods.
Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. [1] The remnants of the old, empty exoskeleton are called exuviae. [2] After moulting, an arthropod is described as teneral, a callow; it is "fresh", pale and soft-bodied.
Many palms form a skirt-like or shuttlecock-like crown of marcescent leaves under new growth that may persist for years before being shed. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In some species only juveniles retain dead leaves [ 13 ] and marcescence in palms is considered a primitive trait.
an abscission scar on the trunk of Castilla where a branch has been shed. Cladoptosis (Ancient Greek κλάδος kládos "branch", πτῶσις ptôsis "falling" [noun]; sometimes pronounced with the p silent) is the regular shedding of branches. [1] It is the counterpart for branches of the familiar process of regular leaf shedding by ...
Abscission of the hypanthium during development of a nectarine fruit. A plant will abscise a part either to discard a member that is no longer necessary, such as a leaf during autumn, or a flower following fertilisation, or for the purposes of reproduction.
Shedding may refer to: . Shedding or moulting of body parts; Desquamation, pathologic or non-pathologic skin shedding; Peeling of the skin; Shedding game, a family of card games where the objective is to get rid of one's hand first
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.