Quantitative Laws in Metabolism and Growth

INTRODUCTION T _ HE work reviewed in this paper is aimed at establishing connections between two fundamental aspects of living organisms, their metabolism and growth. What we call growth of even a simple organism is a tremendously complex phenomenon from the biochemical, physiological, cytological, and morphological viewpoints. There are, however, certain aspects that are amenable to quantitative analysis, and such an approach appears to lead to some insight into the connections between metabolism and growth, and to some answer to the seemingly trivial, but in fact hardly explored question, "Why does an organism grow at all, and why, after a certain time, does its growth come to a stop?"

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