Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences

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1.2.3— Examples of Self-Similarity in Time
Examples of statistical self-similarity in time are:
1. The average height of a layer of cells above the plastic culture dish in which they are growing, and
2. The electrical voltage across the cell membrane of a T-lymphocyte cell.
These measurements are self-similar because the pattern of the smaller fluctuations over brief times is repeated in the larger fluctuations over longer times.

 
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