Definitionn. spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part
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In this way we may distinguish, first, vegetative reproduction, the result of discontinuous growth of the tissues and cell-layers of the body as a whole, leading to (I) fission, (2) autotomy, or (3) vegetative budding; secondly, germinal reproduction, the result of the reproductive activity of the archaeocytes or germinal tissue. [Please select]
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Autotomy not only permits flight, but also defends the animal against the most adverse conditions. [Please select]
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Passive modes of defence are as many and varied as are the active; one of the strangest and most inexplicable of these is that known as spontaneous amputation, technically termed autotomy. [Please select]
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