Allometric Growth Lab Report

Allometric growth, known as Allometry, is a technique of explaining the different various ways of growth ratios in the parts of the human body. It doesn’t matter on the actual age of the person because the body still grows in different rates. The key purpose of this experiment was to determine, if a baby’s body part ratio measurement would be determined as an allmetric or isometric to an adult’s body part ratio measurement. Allmetric is when two parts of the body are growing at a different rate, however an isometric means when two parts of the body are growing at the same rate. In the lab conducted, the Independent Variable (manipulated variable) in the lab was the group because we all has a different measurement of arm and the Dependent Variable, (measure variable) in the lab was the height and hand length because the measurements of the body part can make a change. The controlled variable (wasn’t changed) was the height of adults and the baby because during the …show more content…
Table 1.1 was data of measurements from the tip of the right-hand middle finger to the right-hand wrist finding out that the newborn measured average as the rest of the group, who got measured. In Table 1.2 was data of measurements from the right-hand shoulder joint to the tip of the right-hand middle finger. The data compared the difference between the the newborn and adults in height and body part measurements. In the result is was calculated that the ratios between the newborn and the group are very similar. The newborn’s height was different then us because our bodies might be growing in different ratio, but there is still an involvement of isometric growth. My hypothesis was proven wrong because I had assumed that a baby would have a smaller size in the arm length. But with reading some online sources, I realize that it does matter how old you are or how tall you are, but still the body grows in an isometric