In majority of higher animals and plants growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events. Explain this line. Please don't give links because I have already searched the forum, and found that the answer present is for INCLUSIVE Not for what i asked.
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Growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events means that growth and reproduction both do not occur by the same process. Growth is a different process from reproduction in multicellular organism. Growth has nothing to do with reproduction in most of the multicellular organism. Growth occurs by increase in size and mass of the organism by mitotic division and differentiation of cell leads to perform specialised function. But reproduction is the process of formation of new progeny which are similar to their parent in most of the multicellular organism. In unicellular organism process of growth and reproduction are the same where cell division occurs, number of cell increases and this is also called reproduction. So growth and reproduction are synonymous in unicellular organism.
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Growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events means that growth and reproduction both do not occur by the same process. Growth is a different process from reproduction in multicellular organism. Growth has nothing to do with reproduction in most of the multicellular organism. Growth occurs by increase in size and mass of the organism by mitotic division and differentiation of cell leads to perform specialised function. But reproduction is the process of formation of new progeny which are similar to their parent in most of the multicellular organism. In unicellular organism process of growth and reproduction are the same where cell division occurs, number of cell increases and this is also called reproduction. So growth and reproduction are synonymous in unicellular organism.
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