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- noun biology A
plan of the essentialelements of thebodies of a relatedgroup oforganisms
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A bauplan, or body plan, is essentially the blueprint for the way the body of an organism is laid out.
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Broken and put together according to a bauplan that would make de Sade pale.
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Owen's and Goethe's fundamental type or common bauplan has the features of a Platonic Ideal of which all organisms of the type were imperfect realizations.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968
nuxiy commented on the word bauplan
"The basic inter-related structural characteristics of a species."
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March 21, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word bauplan
I can't believe it was not listed!
March 21, 2009