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allometry

Growth, Organism, Relative, Allometry, Whole, Phylogenetic, Example, and Related

The study of the relative growth of a part or aspect of an organism (for example, its shape or length) relative to the growth of the whole organism, either for growth of an individual (ontogenetic allometry) or by comparing related organisms of different sizes (phylogenetic allometry).

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