inseminate
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The reason isn’t romantic: Female termites can’t store sperm, so they need a male to inseminate them over and over.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
But the timing was crucial: Females usually lay two or three eggs and the moment one egg is laid is the right time to inseminate the next one.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022
Continually coming back to a homicidal partner may seem reckless, but the male spiders are wired to ensure they inseminate a female spider with their genetic information.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2022
In the lawsuit against Summa Health System and Dr Nicholas Spirtos, the couple say that a stranger's genetic material was used to inseminate Mrs Harvey.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2022
Use 0.1 c.c. of the mixed liquor to inseminate each of a series of three nutrose surface plates.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
If a breeder inseminates cows with semen from an infertile bull, the cows will not become pregnant.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Female orcas kept captive in marine zoos can be artificially inseminated to breed more calves, which can later be used to attract more visitors and perform in shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
In Switzerland, around 800,000 cows are artificially inseminated every year.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Reeves and Swanson artificially inseminated nine zoo ocelots with sperm from the wild Texas animals in 2021 and 2022, and no pregnancies resulted.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
The daughter of Jahnu, inseminated with the energy of the illustrious deity, began to tremble.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
And with each insemination costing 80 Swiss francs, that can soon eat up a breeder's budget: a typical Swiss dairy farm spends several thousand Swiss francs a year on artificially inseminating its herd of cows.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Kiken is one of about a half-dozen doctors who have been publicly accused of covertly inseminating patients with their own sperm.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2020
They had collected it with the intention of artificially inseminating the females, including southern white rhinos.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2020
Currently, Colorado has no specific law against doctors using their own sperm when inseminating a woman from an “anonymous” donor.
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019
He stopped practicing in 2014, one year after his license was suspended for two months after he admitted inseminating four women with the wrong sperm.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2018
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