| Term: | scale developmental process |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | scale |
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| Synonyms: | scales |
| Definition: | Dermal bone that is thin, flexible, and platelike, and that develops in overlapping skinfolds that cover the body and often the head of fish and the bases of the fins. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000277] |
| Name: | developmental process |
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| Synonyms: | development, single-organism developmental process |
| Definition: | A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of an integrated living unit: an anatomical structure (which may be a subcellular structure, cell, tissue, or organ), or organism over time from an initial condition to a later condition. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0032502] QuickGO AmiGO |