Indeterminate growth
Indeterminate growth is a life-history pattern in which an organism continues to increase in size even after reaching adulthood, instead of reaching a fixed adult size. The opposite extreme, a fixed-cell-count in adulthood, is eutely.
Definition and variation
The growth classification applies at more than one biological scale. A flowering shoot can be indeterminate even though the plant bearing it eventually dies. In life-history biology, the unit being classified is the whole organism
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