GROWTHCURVE
Growth curve
A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Growth curves are widely used in biology for quantities such as population size or biomass, individual body height or biomass . Values for the measured property can be plotted on a graph as a function of time; see Figure 1 for an example.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Growth curve
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