Growth is not development
Growth is increase; development is change. They happen together, but they are not the same thing.
An irreversible increase in dry weight. It can be measured — height, weight, number of leaves.
A rise in the complexity of cells. It is measured not by a number but by a new ability.
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Compare the two figures
In the plant figure the difference between the first seedling and the last plant is not only height — the last plant has flowers and fruit, which the seedling did not. Getting taller is growth; being able to flower is development.
That completes the eight
All eight characteristics of the chapter are now covered. You can now tell the living and non-living things in the environment apart — mostly. The last section is about what that "mostly" means.