Fruit flies, blow flies, and black flies share a similar life history strategy; they first appear as maggots, pupate, and eventually emerge as adult files. This type of development is called

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This is because fruit flies, blow flies, and black flies go through complete metamorphosis where they have four distinct life stages: egg, larva (or maggot), pupa, and adult. In this type of development, the larval form (maggot) is completely different than the adult form and undergoes a drastic transformation during the pupa stage to become an adult fly. In contrast, incomplete metamorphosis only has three stages: egg, nymph, and adult, and the nymph form is similar to the adult form. Somatic differentiation refers to the process where cells specialize and become different from each other in terms of structure and function. Hermaphroditic development refers to organisms that have both male and female reproductive organs.

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