system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If a caterpillar loses a leg, then goes through metamorphosis, will the butterfly be missing a part of it?
gpt
No, as long as they keep their gene plates they should be fine. When a caterpillar goes into their cocoon they almost completely liquefy. Using these gene plates that are inside the cocoon to reform the genetic slurry into a butterfly.