offspring

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This enables the essential information defining an organism’s core features—represented in the nucleotide sequences of DNA—to be passed down to its offspring.

From The Wall Street Journal

This period is especially important because mothers naturally pass part of their microbiota to their offspring through close contact.

From Science Daily

Many handle mundane tasks such as paying thousands of bills a year for wealthy individuals and their offspring so they never have to glance at a credit-card statement.

From The Wall Street Journal

While that brings its own difficulties, not least with his offspring, Mr Sidhu's weekly accounts start reporting mysterious losses and his faith in community - and theirs in him - is seriously tested.

From BBC

A familiar example of this concept, known as indirect genetic effects, occurs when a mother's genes influence her offspring's growth or immune system through the environment she provides.

From Science Daily