reproduction
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Female screwworm flies produce eggs only once in a lifetime, and once they mate with a sterile male fly, they’re done with their reproduction cycle without having any offspring.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
They first demonstrated that asexual reproduction through runners reduced competition among neighboring organisms.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
In a notorious 2015 speech, Kovalchuk warned that the West was moving toward the creation of “servant humans”—controllable people with limited self-awareness and manipulated reproduction.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
But even if that happens, it will be malnourished, vulnerable to infection and less able to devote the energy needed for reproduction.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
In some cases there would be errors in the reproduction.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing reproduction
Power Prefix: re-
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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