Tver State University, Dep. Biology, Chemistry and Geography, Zhelyabova str. 33, Tver 170000, Russia

Abstract

Function analysis allows to combine ideas about different aspects of organization. Functional specificity determines many peculiarities of individual development, ecology and evolution of modular objects. Principal difference of modular organization is that development function and regulation are connected with changes of object macrostructure. Dynamic macrostructure determines the unstability of boarders of a system, high degree of interaction of main elements of organization, complexity in their splitting and independent investigation. The description of macromorphological structure includes the analysis of its dynamic and functional aspects. It makes very actual the development of theoretical model of modular object morphology. Function and development of modular objects are similar to those in population systems. Analysis of function, individual development and structural evolution of modular objects compared with unitary organism shows lower degree of integrity, development and transformation of the latter. Numerous analogies between modular and unitary systems allow to use modular organization as a model to clarify the ways of realization of general tendencies of organization transformation.