Current knowledge holds that DNA gives the blueprint by which biological development is dictated.
It has even been established that there are regulatory genes functioning to ensure the correct chronology of events. This particular study is to research the mechanical aspects of and influences on growth and resorption analytically via continuum mechanics theory. Skalak et al. have been attempting to establish some constitutive equations describing growth in soft biological tissues based on recent theoretical developments in the bioengineering field. Constitutive equations describe the relationship between stress and deformation a material undergoes. The main reason for the development of such equations is to gain a better understanding of the physiological events involved in growth and resorption processes.