Growth - Biology

Growth is an increase in size or weight.

You can measure it in three ways:

• Size (height, length, width or circumference)
• Wet weight (weight + weight of all the water in the body)
• Dry weight (wight with no water in the body) <-- This can be done in an oven.

Growth in plants and animals:

• Animals stop growing at a certain point in their lives whilst plants grow continuously.
• Animals tend to grow when young then…