Место издания:Санкт-Петербургский союз ученых, Санкт-Петербург
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Аннотация:TIMONIN A.C. ROLE MORPHOLOGY IN BOTANY
Plant morphology is mostly held now as method for revealing plant phylogeny. Thereof, the morphology has inevitably been declining with raising more precise phylogenetic methods. Morphology can survive as theoretical branch if it tackles its specific subject. Some similar structures are evidenced to be neither inherited characters (homologues), nor adaptations for similar environments (analogues), nor displays of gene transduction; they are considered results of intrinsic regularities of form transformations per se. The regularities are recognized as main subject of theoretical plant morphology. Besides, the morphology is a methodology as it elaborates principles of comparison that base any scientific branch.