Answer by Ichthys King for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
A modular animal could be similar to an lizard in overall shape, but with the legs and tail branching out modularly like a plant. This creature would also have to be herbivorous, have extremely good...
View ArticleAnswer by Vigneswara Prabhu for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
I am not entirely Clear on what your question is. I imagine you are asking whether an organism can develop or evolve in such a way that it has the internal systems of a Plant (regeneration and such) as...
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Answer by Willk for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
A tapeworm fits your description.Tapeworms are intestinal parasites of land and water vertebrates. A tapeworm has no mouth, intestine, excretory organs or respiratory organs. The worm's body consists...
View ArticleAnswer by flox for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
We are already modular, already mobile, just in a different scaleAnimals have long had self-repair mechanisms to accommodate loss of cells through either attack/cell death, injury (such as lacerations)...
View ArticleAnswer by Black for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
Interestingly enough, afaik your chosen terminology for the question might've been de-railing."Plant-likes" are more similar to a Reaction-Diffusion System than modular Legos (it's how leaves, roots,...
View ArticleAnswer by Dalila for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
I think the comments about Echinoderms are actually a good start to get on the right track. It is already the phylum most closely related to the phylum Chordata (which includes mammals), and many of...
View ArticleAnswer by overlord for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
The problem is that plants were able to evolve the way they did because if you cut them, the only criteria the new limb needs is that it has access to sunlight. This makes the random developmental...
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Answer by XenoDwarf for Anatomically Correct Modular Body Plan Animals
Oops, someone did that (sorta)I’d like to introduce the siphonophore, a colony organism made of specialised individuals called polyps (or sometimes zooids). Examples include the long strings of polyps....
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The fixedness of body plans varies widely across different types of Earthling organisms. At one extreme, you have things like tardigrades, for which every individual of any given species has exactly...
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