Metamorphosis is
A)changing of one body form to another within a species,such as the change from an aquatic tadpole to a terrestrial frog.
B)an intermediate condition,such as length of legs in mice between longer legs of some mice and shorter legs in others,a condition caused by Hox genes.
C)the developmental changing of a scale to a feather.
D)the evolutionary transition from fishes to amphibians.

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Metamorphosis refers to the changing of one body form to another within a species, as seen in the transformation of an aquatic tadpole to a terrestrial frog. Option B refers to genetic variation, option C to a specific type of morphological change, and option D to an evolutionary transition between different animal groups.

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