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Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2010-06-24 )〕 This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern,size), i.e., external morphology (eidonomy) as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs, i.e., internal morphology or anatomy. This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function. Morphology is a branch of life science dealing with the study of gross structure of an organism or taxon and its component parts. == Etymology and term usage == The word "morphology" is from the Ancient Greek ''μορφή'', ''morphé'', meaning "form", and ''λόγος'', ''lógos'', meaning "word, study, research". The biological concept of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist and physiologist Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800). In English-speaking countries, the term "molecular morphology" has been used for some time for describing the structure of compound molecules, such as polymers 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate=2010-06-24 )〕 and RNA. The term "gross morphology" refers to the collective structures or an organism as a whole as a general description of the form and structure of an organism, taking into account all of its structures without specifying an individual structure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morphology (biology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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