Questions tagged [growth]
In reference to a biological system over time, growth refers to the increase in physical size/mass as well as the progression through its life cycle.
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Why is it desirable to couple chemical production to growth?
I have the following question in systems biology:
a) Draw a graph showing the relationship of growth (Vbio) and Vefni for the system here. (Let the horizontal axis represent Vbio and the vertical axis ...
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Does the bending of a tree's trunk in the wind stimulate and strengthen root growth?
Recently Southern California experienced extreme wind velocities and afterwards the news reported over 300 trees had fallen in San Diego County. I had either heard or read somewhere that the action of ...
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Why do short hairs get longer with age?
I know that short hairs such as eyebrows, eyelashes, nasal hairs will stay a certain length because the lifespan of the follicle only allows them to grow to a certain length.
My question is why do ...
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Which plants are best for experiments about plant growth? [closed]
I was assigned writing a term paper about optimizing plant growth using control systems. This assignment is part of a class on sustainable energy usage, which means it's primarily on physics and ...
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Is it viable to make liquid potassium ferilizer through dissolving very small amounts of potassium chloride in water
I wasn't able to find fertiliser online that was simply potassium chloride and I didnt want to source my potassium chloride solution from potassium sulphate or other general NPK fertilisers for my ...
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Sigmoidal Curve in Geometric Growth
Here is an excerpt from my textbook:
Let us now see what happens in geometrical
growth. In most systems, the initial growth is slow
(lag phase), and it increases rapidly thereafter – at
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Why does eyebrow growth stop after it reaches a specific length?
When compared to hair that grows forever after we cut it, why do eyebrows stop growing? What genes measure current length of eyebrow to ensure it stops growing after a specific length?
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Auxin-what happens to the auxin chemicals if the Sun is just above the plant?
The Auxins goes to the shady side for the elongation of the cell. This moves depending on the direction of sunlight. But, what happens to the auxin chemicals if the Sun is just above the plant?
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Larval abalone devlopmental times - what does ~ °C.days or °C hr-1 mean
I'm looking a number of papers on abalone larval development and the term °C.days or °C hrs-1 keeps coming up. The numbers before these terms are much larger than they would be if this term actually ...
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Does estrogen increase muscular growth in females?
Regarding humans it is said that most psychological effects caused in men by testosterone are caused in women by estrogens. There are many studies on that, particularly regarding temporary shifts of ...
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Refuge impact on growth rate
I have a question related to the refuge effect in ecological models. The assumption is that the population of hosts/prey is divided into two groups. One group consists of individuals that are safe ...
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The animal with the fastest hair growing rate
we know that human hair usually grows about 1/2 inch a month.
My question is what is the species with the fastest hair growing rate? (including fur for example).
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What happens to plants if they are exposed to "sunlight" 24h a day?
I just wondered if one could grow plants faster, if they were exposed to sunlight-like light all the time.
In a similar question which is not the same, I could confirm that plants have different ...
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scientific reasons behind a a sudden yet temporary growth sprout of the plant when the soil has No depth?
Sorry, I'm kind of naive when it comes to plant biology.
Mark 4:5-6( New American Standard Bible 1995 )
5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil;
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There are some species that grow throughout their lives -- is there evidence that even in adulthood their brains increase in size?
One species I have read about is carp whose growth is limited only by food supply and space. One can actually, because their skin is almost transparent, see their brains and it sure does look like ...
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Can plants grow healthily being watered in either deionized or distilled water? [closed]
I want to use deionized/distilled water to water plants from some. I have the choice whether to use tap water, deionized water or distilled water that come from a closed system that has a water cycle, ...
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Which approach is the common one in the literature for determining the bacterial growth rate?
I have the following data, which is OD600 (the second component) vs. time (the first component):
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Can you accelerate the growth of a plant by accelerating its surroundings?
I had this weird idea of making plants grow faster when I first visited an indoor nursery which used floodlights instead of sunlight. They turned on during the day and went off during night in cycles.
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Biology Experiment Algae pH & temperature help?
I am planning a Biology investigation for my IB IA on the impact of temperature and pH on algae growth. Does anyone have tips on how to measure the growth rate of algae? What algae is the most suited ...
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Make plant experience 2 growing seasons per year by moving it across equator semiyearly
If I take a typical plant (such as e.g. a rosemary plant or an avocado sapling) across the equator from Florida to Brazil and back every year, so that the plant experiences Spring in both places, will ...
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What is the mechanism through which fractals arise in plants and animals?
Many biological organisms -- such as trees, broccoli, and the blood vessels in animals -- can be approximately described using fractals.
What is the reason behind such fractals? Specifically, do we ...
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How long to regrow hair?
This is one of the questions I wasn't exactly sure where to post. Basically, I want to make an X-Men parody, and for the part of Professor X I need to shave off my hair. Now I have a simple french ...
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How do I determine this logistic growth model formula?
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Two yeast cells were placed into a special container to which food was
continually added, to keep it at a constant concentration. All other
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Is there a favoured mathematical model of bacterial growth?
One of the most regularly measured phenotypes in bacterial synthetic biology is growth. Anyone who does wet lab microbiology or synthetic biology will have performed a growth curve measurement. ...
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Do slime mold expand or multiply?
After reading about slime mold I was wondering, do slime mold simply expand outwards or multiply?
e.g. if I put 100 grams of slime mold in 1 location, will it expand to say, 2 locations, and have the ...
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Growing Penicillium Digitatum Mold
I left a cup of tea with Lemmon on my desk and after a while green mold start growing on the water. From my understating this is Penicillium digitatum. I gave it some sugar and after one day black ...
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Why is DNA replication so much faster in prokaryotes than eukaryotes?
There are many statements to be found on the internet of the sort:
“DNA replication occurs at elongation rates of about 500 nucleotides
per second in bacteria and about 50 nucleotides per second in
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Is it possible to determine the initial population given the final one?
It is possible to determine the initial population of, say, bacteria given a measure at a later time?
Let's say I use the logistic growth model
$$\dot N (t) = rN(t)\left(1 - \frac{N(t)}{K}\right)$$
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Giant insects growing question
During the dinosaurs time 100-200 million years ago there were giant insects like 1 meter long. An example is here. One of the theories why they could grow this big is that oxygen level was much ...
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What is the maximum height of a tree?
I know there exists a huge variation in the height of trees. But what is the maximum height a tree can reach?
It must have something to do with the ability of the capillaries to transport life fluids ...
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Trees growing around objects vs pushing them away. Where is the threshold?
If a tree grows against a taut wire then the tree will grow around it, eventually enveloping the entire wire. This often scars the tree, and if the wire is thick enough, it will interrupt nutrient ...
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Do babies have a fight or flight response?
Do babies react in the same way as young children and adults in regards to the fight or flight response? If they do not respond in a similar way or don't have a fight or flight response at all then at ...
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What is the substance that tumors release that stimulates growth of blood vessels but suppresses its release from other tumors?
I'm currently in high school and I am working on a cancer research project. My project consists of a cancer, and different ways to treat it. I have a set of benign tumor and I was thinking of ...
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Why is cognitive maturity related to organism lifespan in larger animals and mammals?
I am not a student of biology, so I should provide some context to me asking this rudimentary question. While doing a graduate-level course on Reinforcement Learning, the instructors focused on how we ...
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A question about microbes growing media
I was told in my microbiology course that blood agar can be put in GasPak system (anearobic) to grow strict anaerobes, but why would someone use blood-dependent bacteria in this experiment as these ...
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Can the human body store protein?
I am interested to know if a human body can store protein.
Absolutely for the bodybuilders, does it really matter if they divide their protein consumption during the day or eat all of it in one meal ...
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What to do with this Araucaria sprout
I live in Santiago, Chile, and I see this Araucaria frequently:
For what I have read, it seems to be a female A. angustifolia individual (leaves are 2-3 cm long and a few mm wide, with a very sharp ...
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Is any animal born adult-size?
Size growth after birth seems to be the norm in the animal kingdom (as well as among plants). This makes sense. It's evidently physically challenging for an animal to produce an offspring of its equal ...
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Do young children grow in spurts
It is a commonplace of my friends and relatives to remark that a young child (younger than 3 years) has had a recent "growth spurt". The underlying assumption is that young children do not grow taller ...
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Bacterial Growth Formula
What are the units of $N$: the colonies of bacteria or the viable cell count?
This is in regards to the bacterial growth formula used during serial dilutions,
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N =N(0) e^{kt} \quad .
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Alternative to Lotka Volterra
Would you guys know any kind of differential equations that would dictate population growth without relying on Lotka Volterra ? Thanks ^^
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What are the evolutionary reasons behind men being taller than women?
Human men and women are sexually dimorphic: there are some phenotypic differences between men and women.
Men being taller than women is an accurate stereotype. Overall, men are on average 13 ...
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Age until physical growth ceases, mammals
Fairly basic, but I am seeking a table showing how many years from birth it takes for the best-known mammals to stop growing. (Including the latest on humans - ie. 0-17..?).
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Per Capita Population Growth Rate and Exponential Growth. Rate constants
As many of us might know, the set up of a differential equation relating instantaneous population growth with respect to time to the per capita population growth rate and current population size at an ...
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Growth rate oscillation in the a population of non-interacting bacteria
I have come across this theoretical paper claiming that if you start a batch culture from a single E. coli cell, the exponential growth rate of the population defined as $$k = \frac1N \frac{dN}{dt}$$
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What do bones need to grow outside the body?
In what environment outside of a living organism can bones grow?
If I were to put an arbitrary human bone in a room and attach a bunch of tubes to it, or dunk it in some kind of solution, where would ...
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Mechanisms of bone growth
The length of a bone is caused by growth of hyaline cartilage which is then replaced by bone tissue. How do cells know whether they should grow the hyaline cartilage? What are the key molecules that ...
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I'm 20. Can I still grow taller? [closed]
I'm 20, in about 6 months I turn 21. For some time I've been wondering whether there are natural, non-surgical and non-pharmaceutical ways that humans can continue to grow after reaching adulthood.
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Are the bacteria in the stomachs of unborn babies beneficial?
Babies are born with bacteria in their stomachs. I heard on The radio that when a child is given antibiotics for the first time unique bacteria in the stomach are destroyed and cannot be replaced. Is ...
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What is the connection between exercise and muscle growth
From a physiological perspective, all that is done during exercise is the expending of energy in the form of ATP to fuel muscle contraction and extension.
When I looked up why muscle grow due to ...
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