Absolute and Relative Growth Rate MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Quantitative comparisons between the growth of a living system can also be made in two ways:

• The measurement and comparison of total growth per unit time is called the absolute growth rate.
• The growth of the given system per unit time expressed on a common basis, e.g., per unit initial parameter is called the relative growth rate.

• Two leaves, A and B, are drawn that are of different sizes but shows an absolute increase in area in the given time to give leaves, A1 and B1.
• However, one of them shows much higher relative growth rate.