BSCI 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Allometry

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Biological Sciences Program
• Course: BSCI 207
• Professor: Leo Shapiro

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Bsci207 - lecture 9 - a review of scaling. *note: the professor didn"t teach any new material today. If p is always 4 times r. And q is always 12 times r. P is always a third of q (p= q) . If the shape of an object doesn"t change or the proportion by which it changes is kept constant, then it is growing isometrically. If the shape of an object changes (length changes more than width), then it is growing allometrically. Area varies with power of change in volume. This is an example of isometric growth because area changes by a power of 2 (l^2) and volume changes by a power of 3 (l^3), which is what we expect for a length of 1 (l=1) If area is on the y axis and volume is on the x axis, b= .