Size inheritance and growth in a mouse species cross (Mus musculus × Mus bactrianus). IV. Growth

✍ Scribed by Green, C. V.

• Book ID: 102889880
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1931
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 665 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.1400590204

✦ Synopsis

ELEVEN FIGURE6

Growth in plants and animals, a complicated process characterized by an increase through the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism, is a comprehensive term very difficult to define. I n our investigation, however, growth merely denotes a general postnatal size increase indicated by the increase in weight.

I n an effort to place the observed phenomena of growth on a mathematical basis, Brody ( '26), Robertson ( '23), and Crozier ('26), each with minor variations, have borrowed from chemistry the idea of autocatalytic monomolecular reactions. Brody ('26) states his idea that-