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/ˌɹipɹəˈdəkʃən/
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[ UK /ɹɪpɹədˈʌkʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪpɹədˈʌkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the process of generating offspring
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the act of making copies
Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient - copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
How To Use reproduction In A Sentence
- Parasitic plants may affect host fitness by absorbing resources that are essential for host growth and reproduction.
- In this way, unproductive life - life before and after work or rather life in excess of work - is recaptured in the reproductive margins of the normative household, redelivered in other words to the ends of proper social production and the reproduction of the time of labour. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
- That notion identifies heritability with the regression of the offspring phenotype on the parental (or biparental mean in the case of sexual reproduction), where both phenotypes are presented as z-scores (i.e., set to mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1). Miss Winter Solstice
- For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link
- When that course entails the social regulation of her sexual life in reproduction, the young woman's entry into intellectual life will necessarily be seen as transgressive.
- Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis.
- If, however, the Logos is intrinsically the Son of God, then Christ is the Son of God, not because he is the begotten of God in the flesh (early Christian), but because the spiritual being existing in him is the antemundane reproduction of History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
- Also off the hallway is a sitting room with an antique reproduction fireplace.
- Despite the inherent inexactness of reproduction cost estimates, he insisted that their economic importance was such that they could not be ignored when they markedly differed from actual cost figures.
- However, an economic model that does not include the creation of wealth is about as valuable as an ecological model that does not include reproduction or predation.
