Is "patches of zones on the wing scales" describing "groups" and could be placed inside parentheses or is it a part of a structure like "that affect the colouration of A, B, and C"? And why?
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by the waxing and waning, shifting, fusion, re-alignment or outright loss, piece by piece, of basic ‘pattern elements’. During individual development these act as controls that affect the colouration of whole groups, patches of zones on the wing scales, and together make up a set of building blocks from which almost all butterfly patterns seem to have derived…
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Is "p atches of zones on the wing scales" describing "groups" and could be placed inside parentheses Yes or is it a part of a structure like "that affect the colouration of A, B , and C" ? No. And why?
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