Growth curve

Growth curve
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Growth curve
Figure 1: A "bi-phasic" bacterial growth curve.
A growth curve in biology generally concerns a measured property such as population size, body height or biomass.

Growth curve. See Growth phase.
Growth factor. A serum protein that stimulates cell division when it binds to its cell-surface receptor.

Sigmoid growth curve shows the number of bacteria plotted against time
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J curve A growth curve that depicts exponential growth; called a J curve because of its shape.
jacket cells Ciliated somatoderm of an orthonectid mesozoan.

One-step growth curve
A plot of the production of lytic growth of a virus vs time. An excess of bacteria is infected with virus.

[Discussion] Lipase Lipids[ serum lipids ] Lipopolysaccharide (LPS; also known as endotoxin) Lipoprotein Listeria monocytogenes Littoral zone Liver[hormones of] [physiology] Liverworts Lizard, heart of Logistic growth curve Long-term depression ...

The steepest slope of the growth curve--the phase of vigorous growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30 minutes for E. coli.
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See also: Express, Cells, Cell, Expression, DNA