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sexual reproduction
[ sek-shoo-uhl ree-pruh-duhk-shuhn ]
noun
- reproduction involving the union of gametes.
sexual reproduction
noun
- reproduction involving the fusion of a male and female haploid gamete
sexual reproduction
- See under reproduction
sexual reproduction
- The production of a new living thing by two parent organisms, with each parent contributing half the material in the DNA of the offspring. The young, genetically different from either parent, can rapidly adapt to their environment by means of natural selection . ( See chromosomes and meiosis .)
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of sexual reproduction1
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"Clearly, however, their presence in sediments is a normal occurrence and could even play a key role in their biology, particularly in their sexual reproduction, about which we have only rudimentary knowledge," says Eitel.
Investigating this spot, Braun's team noticed it was not as mixed together as it should have been over millions of years of sexual reproduction.
The A. cauliformis population before the hurricanes was highly clonal but shifted to greater sexual reproduction for recolonization after the hurricanes, with 85 percent of sexual reproduction mainly due to local larval recruitment.
No matter how many romantically frustrated mammals have wished they could truly go it alone, though, a genetic quirk means we still need sexual reproduction.
In mammals, sexual reproduction leads to offspring made up of a mixture of genes from their father and mother.
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