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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.)
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sexual reproduction1
Example Sentences
"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.
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.
"Some of these cultivars have been nearly stripped of any diversity except at their genes controlling sexual reproduction."
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