what determines the growth of a person?

Answer 1

Number one, heridity. If your parents are 5 feet tall, you probably won't be over 6 feet tall.

Number two, environment. If you don't get enough proper nutrition, your growth will suffer.

Answer 2

A person's final growth is determined by his/her genes, and environments. But, what does that mean exactly?

Genes are your DNA, your organismal blue-prints, and support knowledge base. It is where the knowledge of "how", "what", "when" and "where" is stored. The "why" is there, too, but it is a bit harder to educe, and sometimes superficially deduce some of its truth. We are stuck with the oblong problems that are the piecings together of the organismal user-manuals. But, the DNA itself has the instructions on how to construct all of the even smaller than nanomachines-sotospeak, called proteins that your cells use to do everything they actually DO. One of those things is grow, and there is a sort of "default" program that is going on. This "default" programming does come from your mother's and father's DNA. However, it is the perception of environment by the endocrine system of the person that will sway the many operations in the growth programming.

So, how does a person grow, is a question that is also being asked in general here. I saw someone mention the endocrine system. I would say that I concur to the point of nearly nodding my head off. More specifically, I would like to answer that a person's growth in nearly all ways is produced by one's individual Endocrinology steared, tweaked, and motivated by one's individual, and continually changing, environment. But, what does that mean?

Endocrinology is the study of hormones and their manifestations-while often ultimately perceivable by bare human senses, biochemically. Hormones are the chemical and protein cell signal messengers of organisms. One major difference between the complex chemical and protein-which is somewhat redundant I'll admit, hormone is size. This can be illustrated by drawing some hexagons, pentagons and left over lines on a piece of paper. For the simple chemical hormones, draw 5 hexagons, and 1 pentagon, try to keep all the sides the same length, and all of the shapes must share at least one side. Draw some extra legs off of some of the corners of the shapes, imagine these legs are the same size and orientation as sides of more shapes that just didn't get drawn in. DONE? :) This is a representation of a complex chemical hormone, a protein hormone is going to be about 20 to tens of thousands of times bigger.

Hormones deliver messages. Some hormones make one grow tremendously more muscle mass with the aid of some working out in key areas; these are the steroid hormones one might think of a someone injecting. Only problem is these same hormones cause manifestations elsewhere, too. Those darn "side-effects". Or-in other words, the messages do not mean the same thing to all parties involved, and of course, all parties would mean all of your different cells and systems in your body :)

Have you ever seen a set of "biologically" identical twins who had significantly different physical bodies, such as height or weight? Twins of this type are genetically identical, and they are perfect examples of how far reaching the phrase "one's environment" really is! Environment means so much that I must use a listing format to illustrate and demonstrate its undying significance: how often one is fed corn, how many siblings are in the house, how many children the mother had before this one is born, how often the child is made to feel stress, how much the unborn fetus was exposed to the mother's stress, how much the unborn fetus was exposed to the stress of the father put UPON the mother-for that matter, how many times did the child get sick in early stages of development, how much love and reassurance did the child get, how rich was the child's diet in chromium, how much physical activity did this child get, or how much directly/indirectly stimulating hormone production metabolites have been chronically consumed. This list is so long, it goes beyond listing :)

So, if one wants to know what to do to grow bigger and stronger, that is another question, but find out what foods are high in metabolites that will directly or indirectly stimulate your growth hormone production, and you'll be well on your way to what to feed a kid to make him or her somewhat more tall or strong. One of those-while not a food is love and security, provide that and you'll provide a very important part of the stimuli necessary for a strong and tall as can be piece of two people put together.

Hopefully, that wasn't as confusing of an answer as it was informative, thought provoking and understandable :)

Be well!

Answer 3

The answers you've gotten so far are pretty thorough (genes, nutrition, etc.), so I'll only add one thing.

It's also been shown that your long bones (arms and legs basically) primarily (90% or so) grow while you're sleeping or otherwise immobile. So the amount and quality of the sleep one gets also has a significant impact on their ultimate height.

Parents are always fond of saying things to their kids like, "Wow! I swear you've grown two inches over night!" As it turns out... two inches might be a stretch, but it's certainly possible that they're perceiving actual changes in the height of their children from such a short period. Cool!

Answer 4

The growth of a person can be determined primarily thru genes from parents... of course you won't grow 7 feet if your parents are 5 feet tall...

2nd is Environnment and your lifestyle... how you eat the way your daily routine goes... they also affect

Answer 5

Heredity. My family has proved how it can go back though. The height seemed to have skipped my parents, my mother is 5'5 and my father is 5'8. One brother is 6' and the other is over that. My sister is about 5'8, and I'm 5'3.
I got my great grandmothers height. There are only 3 of us great granddaughters who inherited it. And my fathers dad was a very tall man. So it jumps here and there.

Answer 6

Genes,Age,Nutrition, Gender, Endocrines and Environment.

Answer 7

I would say, how much that person grows from birth to adulthood

Answer 8

Genes. DNA.