The metabolic process characteristic of organisms undergoing incomplete or variable metamorphosis.
From heterometabolic with the noun suffix '-ism', describing the biochemical basis of gradual insect development.
An insect's body during incomplete metamorphosis is performing constant metabolic juggling acts—reshaping tissues while staying operational, unlike caterpillars that basically dissolve in their cocoons.
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