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How does a caterpillar turn into a butterfly at a cellular level? What happens to trigger the various stages? Are their factors that would prevent it or delay it? Or is it inevitable in this species? What causes the cellular change? Is there anything remotely similar in certain human cells?

by /u/DadJ0ker in /r/askscience

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