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- 1. a person's child or children: "the offspring of middle-class parents" Similar
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14 hours ago · In fertilization and breeding experiments (and especially when discussing Mendel's laws) the parents are referred to as the "P" generation and the offspring as the "F1" (first filial) generation. When the F1 offspring mate with each other, the offspring are called the "F2" (second filial) generation.
3 days ago · Reproduction is the process by which an organism passes on their genetic material to another generation by having offspring. Offspring are the young of an organism, otherwise known as its children or progeny.
5 days ago · Inbreeding, the mating of individuals or organisms that are closely related through common ancestry. Inbreeding is useful in the retention of desirable characteristics or the elimination of undesirable ones, but it often results in decreased vigor, size, and fertility of the offspring.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman's uterus (womb). [4] [13] A multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins. [14] Pregnancy usually occurs by sexual intercourse, but can also occur through assisted reproductive technology procedures. [6]
3 days ago · Moreover, natural selection would occur even if all the members of a population died at the same age, simply because some of them would have produced more offspring than others. Natural selection is quantified by a measure called Darwinian fitness or relative fitness.
- Francisco Jose Ayala
1 day ago · Mendelian inheritance refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring. These general patterns were established by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel, who performed thousands of experiments with pea plants in the 19th century.
2 days ago · Generally, these children are her biological offspring, although adoption of children occurs in nearly every society. This kind of family occurs commonly where women have the resources to rear their children by themselves, or where men are more mobile than women.
