Morphology (biology)

This article is about the term in biology. For other uses, see Morphology.
Morphology of a male skeleton shrimp, Caprella mutica

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.[1]

This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, color, pattern, size), i.e. external morphology (or eidonomy), as well as the form and structure of internal parts like bones and organs, i.e. internal morphology (or anatomy). This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function. Morphology is a branch of life science dealing with the study of the gross structure of an organism or taxon and its component parts.

  1. ^ "Morphology Definition of Morphology by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of Morphology". Lexico DictionariesEnglish. Archived from the original on March 5, 2020.