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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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:...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Human Growth Hormone Fragment 176–191 (hGH frag 176–191) is a peptide fragment of human growth hormone. It has erroneously been presented as a lipolytic...

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

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...

development (cleavage of the zygote to form a morula and blastoderm), cell divisions occur repeatedly without cell growth. Conversely, some cells can grow without...

as mildew, is a fungal growth that develops on wet materials in interior spaces. Mold is a natural part of the environment and plays an important part...

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...

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...