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  2. Biological exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    Biological exponential growth. Biological exponential growth is the unrestricted growth of a population of organisms, occurring when resources in its habitat are unlimited. Most commonly apparent in species that reproduce quickly and asexually, like bacteria, exponential growth is intuitive from the fact that each organism can divide and ...

  3. Exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate. It occurs when the instantaneous rate of change (that is, the derivative) of a quantity with respect to time is proportional to the quantity itself. Described as a function, a quantity undergoing exponential growth is an exponential function of time ...

  4. Cell growth - Wikipedia

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    Category. v. t. e. Cell growth refers to an increase in the total mass of a cell, including both cytoplasmic, nuclear and organelle volume. [1] Cell growth occurs when the overall rate of cellular biosynthesis (production of biomolecules or anabolism) is greater than the overall rate of cellular degradation (the destruction of biomolecules via ...

  5. Population dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Population dynamics has traditionally been the dominant branch of mathematical biology, which has a history of more than 220 years, [1] although over the last century the scope of mathematical biology has greatly expanded. [citation needed] The beginning of population dynamics is widely regarded as the work of Malthus, formulated as the ...

  6. Growth curve (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Growth curve (biology) Figure 1: A bi-phasic bacterial growth curve. A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Growth curves are widely used in biology for quantities such as population size or biomass (in population ecology and demography, for population growth analysis), individual body height or biomass ...

  7. Plant growth analysis - Wikipedia

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    The equation for exponential mass growth rate in plant growth analysis is often expressed as: = ⁡ Where: M(t) is the final mass of the plant at time (t). M 0 is the initial mass of the plant. RGR is the relative growth rate. RGR can then be written as:

  8. Monod equation - Wikipedia

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    The Monod equation is a mathematical model for the growth of microorganisms. It is named for Jacques Monod (1910–1976, a French biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965), who proposed using an equation of this form to relate microbial growth rates in an aqueous environment to the concentration of a limiting nutrient. [1] [2 ...

  9. Cell proliferation - Wikipedia

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    Cell division, growth, and proliferation. Cell proliferation is the process by which a cell grows and divides to produce two daughter cells. Cell proliferation leads to an exponential increase in cell number and is therefore a rapid mechanism of tissue growth.