Their extreme miniaturization is accompanied by determinate growth and skeletal reduction.
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The organisms probably exhibited determinate growth ( i . e . stems did not grow further after producing sporangia ).
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Warm-blooded animals, like modern birds and bats, normally show rapid growth to adult size and determinate growth.
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Mammals have a determinate growth size based on the growth plates on their bones, combined with nutrition and so forth.
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Then they reached sexual maturity, growing at a slower rate for four to five years until there was a determinate growth stop.
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Additionally, pterodactyloids had " determinate growth ", meaning that the animals reached a fixed maximum adult size and stopped growing.
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Finally, gastropods with a determinate growth pattern may create a single and terminal lip structure when approaching maturity, after which growth ceases.
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A "'thyrse "'is a type of inflorescence in which the main axis grows indeterminately, and the subaxes ( branches ) have determinate growth.
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Another type of cell is a conidial anastomosis tube ( CAT ); these differ from germ tubes in that they are thinner, shorter, lack branches, exhibit determinate growth and home toward each other.
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In the Nature report, Erickson's group wrote : " The presence of thin, tightly packed growth lines late in development shows that these animals, like nearly all ( if not all ) dinosaurs, had determinate growth.