[On the methodology of morphology and levels of morphologic analysis]

Unjustified narrowing of the problems of morphology by merging the terms "morphology" and "anatomy" leads to stagnation in morphology. The merging of "classic" and "modern" biology will enrich both morphology and molecular biology and genetics. The latter will be able apply conceptual models of morphology to more primitive structural level of life. The possibility to apply V. A. Dogel' 's ideas on the role of oligomerization and polymerization in science to the analysis of molecular evolution has been demonstrated with the analysis of DNA content in the genomes of Chordata taken as an example. The data on DNA content do not allow both to consider lungfishes as ancestors of all Tetrapoda and develop monophyletic concept of Tetrapoda origin at the same time. The possibility of application of concepts of comparative morphology to analysis of molecular evolution has been considered.