These building blocks come in the form of imaginal discs.
这些构建块以图像光盘的形式出现。
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It does have groups of cells inside its body called imaginal discs that will eventually become its butterfly parts.
它体内确实有一组细胞, 称为成虫盘,最终将成为它的蝴蝶部分。
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The caterpillar juice then fuels the development of the imaginal discs into eyes, antennae, legs, wings, genitalia, and other body parts.
然后,毛毛虫汁液推动成虫盘发育成眼睛、触角、腿、翅膀、生殖器和其他身体部位。
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Soon, the muscles, fat, and other tissues are almost entirely liquefied, though the imaginal discs stay intact and begin to grow.
很快, 肌肉、脂肪和其他组织几乎完全液化,但成虫椎间盘保持完好并开始生长。
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And while things are reorganizing and growing inside the chrysalis, the new parts the future butterfly will need are already there on those imaginal discs, growing into their final form.
当新器官在蛹内重组和生长时,未来蝴蝶需要的新部分已经在那些想象的光盘上,成长为它们的最终形态。
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Besides the imaginal discs, only a few tissues are spared, including parts of the respiratory system, the heart, some abdominal muscles, and the mushroom bodies of the brain.
In biology, the imago is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it also is called the imaginal stage, the stage in which the insect attains maturity. It follows the final ecdysis of the immature instars.