body plan

Example Sentences

• "In a radiate body plan, as shown by a star-fish, the body is composed on the principle of converging rays, the antimeres; each of the latter is bilaterally symmetrical, with a distinction between dorsal and ventral, and contains a series of "organs"; and each of these organs has its minor parts."
• "Each phylum originated from a single founding species, is characterized by a unique body plan or Bauplan (Chapter 6), and had an independent evolutionary history for over 540 to 560 million years according to most current estimates."
• "If we ascribe all limitation of variation in body plan to the limitations imposed by functional constraints during development and during independent existence, then we have indeed a thoroughgoing "selectionist" or "conditions for existence" account for such stability."
• "The middle line of the body plan, or fore perpendicular, is drawn square to the base, and the half siding of the stem and stern-post on each side of it."
• "The sections of the body plan will end at the half siding of the keel, stem or stern-post as to breadth, and at the lower edge of the rabbet of the keel as to depth in each section."
• "For this reason the table of offsets is given, as the displacement has been obtained from them and errors would creep in if they were scaled from the body plan."