The Saskatchewan death rate, long in the 7.5â8.5/1,000 range, increased to 9.2 in 2001, perhaps to some extent due to the âbaby boomâ generation of the 1950s now reaching retirement age, but mostly due to a significant expansion of older-aged population.
Differentiation is an operation that allows us to find a function that outputs the rate of change of one variable with respect to another variable. Informally, we may suppose that we're tracking the position of a car on a two-lane road with no passing lanes.
Differentiation in plants refers to the processes by which distinct cell types arise from precursor cells and become different from each other. Plants have about a dozen basic cell types that are required for everyday functioning and survival. Additional cell types are required for sexual reproduction.