On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948). The book is long – 793 pages in the first edition...

their growth form. This form, which is based on the appearance of vegetative part of the lichen (its thallus), varies depending on the species and the environmental...

knighted, and received the Darwin Medal and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Thompson is remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, which...

type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue. The process that occurs to form or produce a neoplasm is called neoplasia. The growth of a neoplasm is...

Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell...

who then each split to form four, who split to form eight, and so on. Because exponential growth indicates constant growth rate, it is frequently assumed...

plant life form classifications uses other criteria than naturalness, like morphology, physiology and ecology. Life-form and growth-form are essentially...

phyllotaxis, were written by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his 1917 book On Growth and Form and Alan Turing in his The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952). Where...

with two percentage points of negative growth in real GDP. The relationship varies depending on the country and time period under consideration. The relationship...

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in...

anatomy, physiology and behaviour, first outlined by Otto Snell in 1892, by D'Arcy Thompson in 1917 in On Growth and Form and by Julian Huxley in 1932...

published On Growth and Form; his description of phyllotaxis and the Fibonacci sequence, the mathematical relationships in the spiral growth patterns of...

bacterial growth occurs. Both daughter cells from the division do not necessarily survive. However, if the surviving number exceeds unity on average, the...

Smart Growth America (SGA) is a US non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. Smart Growth America focuses on three specific priorities:...

The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources...

alcohol and carboxylic acid groups to form ester links with loss of water. However, there are exceptions; for example polyurethanes are step-growth polymers...

Growth of religion involves the spread of individual religions and the increase in the numbers of religious adherents around the world. In sociology, desecularization...

scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree. As well as dating them, this can give data...

original (PDF) on 30 January 2019. Brown KH, Peerson JM, Rivera J, Allen LH (June 2002). "Effect of supplemental zinc on the growth and serum zinc concentrations...

In biology and botany, indeterminate growth is growth that is not terminated in contrast to determinate growth that stops once a genetically predetermined...

vitalism and offered geometric explanations in his classic 1917 book On Growth and Form. Adolf Seilacher suggested mechanical inflation for "pneu" structures...

and Alcaligenes). Bacteria grown in liquid cultures often form colloidal suspensions. The difference between growth media used for cell culture and those...

Between 2015 and 2060, Muslim population is projected to increase by 70%. This compares with the 32% growth of world population during the same period...

The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) is an agreement, among all the 27 member states of the European Union (EU), to facilitate and maintain the stability...

time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological features. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH), also known as somatocrinin among other names in its endogenous form and as somatorelin (INN) in its pharmaceutical...

botany, secondary growth is the growth that results from cell division in the cambia or lateral meristems and that causes the stems and roots to thicken...

of functional equation and growth condition Multilinear form, which generalises bilinear forms to mappings VN → F Quadratic form, a homogeneous polynomial...

Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication—it is one form of hormone therapy. Growth hormone is a peptide...

vitalism and offered geometric explanations in his classic 1917 book On Growth and Form. Adolf Seilacher suggested mechanical inflation for "pneu" structures...