hi everyone

hi all, I'm Ian and thought I'd sign up and have a nosey around

Leopard geckos I must admit aren't my first choice of reptile, but I have a keen interest in 'morphology' (if theres such a word ) and theres plenty of scope in leos

Hello Ian, fancy seeing you on here!

moin Jill! :lol:

Moin Boss! Couldn't find you on your own forum tonight!! :P

:O talk of other forums not allowed!! haha, im kidding obviously.

Hey Ian, thanks for joining. Hopefully when it gets busier you will enjoy the morphs and genetics section then.

And i believe morphology is a word yes.

Hi and welcome Ian... yes Morphology IS a word

In Biology- morphology is a branch of bioscience dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features. This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern) as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs. 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.

and in Linguistics- In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of morphemes and other units of meaning in a language like words, affixes, and parts of speech and intonation/stress, implied context (words in a lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology). Morphological typology represents a way of classifying languages according to the ways by which morphemes are used in a language —from the analytic that use only isolated morphemes, through the agglutinative ("stuck-together") and fusional languages that use bound morphemes (affixes), up to the polysynthetic, which compress lots of separate morphemes into single words.

Looking forward to seeing you around the boards