Plural form: organisms or body structures composed of unlike parts or having different types of bodies.
From 'hetero-' (different) + 'somata' (Greek plural of 'soma,' meaning body). A technical biological term describing compositional diversity within organisms.
This word describes creatures like colonial organisms where individual 'bodies' specialize differently—imagine a coral colony where some polyps eat and others defend!
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