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What are biological or biochemical processes that are described (stochastically or deterministically) by exponential function $f(x) = e^{ax}$?

Edit: What about examples that are not related to the population growth? I'm especially interested in biochemical examples.

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    The canonical example in college algebra texts is the growth of bacteria populations (or populations in general, really).2011-11-23
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    See [kinetics section](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction#Kinetics) of wiki page of chemical reactions. You would also find some of the [demonstrations on chemical kinetics](http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/search.html?query=kinetics) from Wolfram Demonstrations project useful2011-11-23

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