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Define growth in living organisms.



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Growth:

  1. Growth is the increase in mass of an organism that occurs due to an increase in cell size or cell number. ​
  2. Growth of an organism is the irreversible increase.
  3. The growth in the number of cells that occurs due to cell division is called hyperplasia, while the increase in the cell size is called hypertrophy.

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