The exception was again the chick with few scorable bands, and we concluded that all those chicks were genetic offspring of their social fathers. |
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Mongolian gerbil fathers' initial offspring avoidance has been a mystery, in that by day three they're dutiful dads. |
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Territorial sires fathered a greater proportion of the offspring of territorial dams than floater sires. |
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The genetic make-up of an individual is inherited from parent to offspring and underpins certain characters or traits. |
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Of the 339 eggs transferred by the research team, 90 managed to implant properly in the uterus, and 15 offspring were born. |
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What is remarkable, by contrast, is how unsympathetic and inartistic his spouse and offspring appear to be. |
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It follows that if parents mess up in any way, there can be no second chance, and their offspring will be on the fast track to a blighted life. |
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The three Fates, or Moirai, were the offspring of Zeus and the Titan Themis. |
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Hybridization may result in sterile offspring because of the incompatibility of genes or enzyme systems inherited from two dissimilar species. |
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Deer are a fecund species, and they produce multiple offspring when stressed. |
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The female needs a male to fertilize her egg, even though it is she who carries offspring through pregnancy and childbirth. |
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They then entered the inner sanctum, where the assembled worshippers were anxiously querying their offspring about the status of their bladders. |
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Every second generation during backcrossing, we mated the first filial offspring of the parental backcross to recover the recessive phenotype. |
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For this purpose we determined the genotypes of 695 offspring from F 1 intercrosses. |
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When males display and mate at the sites where offspring develop, site choice and mate choice may not be independent. |
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Most parents make a point of actively discouraging their offspring from forming any relationship with a motorbike. |
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Most offspring were from monogamous pairs, but a few cases consistent with polygyny by males or sequential polyandry by females were also found. |
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In the rare mating system called polyandry, the female breeds with several males, which then raise the offspring alone. |
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At the San Diego Zoo a two-headed corn snake named Thelma and Louise produced 15 normal offspring before it died. |
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In late summer we checked for retained offspring among the first-year birds in flocks using behavior and DNA fingerprinting. |
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For all parents and offspring we therefore measured left and right wing length and width and hind, mid, and fore tibia length. |
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When parents bid an emotional farewell to their offspring at the start of a gap year adventure, their minds are often filled with forebodings. |
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They are highly adapted for cursorial life, their offspring are vulnerable to predation, and adequate den sites are limited. |
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It's only when mums and dads dress their offspring as cut-down versions of themselves that those same vanities start to become a little worrying. |
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The offspring of these three populations were tested for fusibility against both inbred lines by colony assays. |
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Well, as all offspring know, it is difficult to be assertive with a determined older parent who tells one to stop fussing unnecessarily. |
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Producing offspring which are direct copies of one another reduces the gene pool, meaning all animals have the same genes. |
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The desire to reach higher leaves led to longer necks, and later on, the giraffes ' offspring inherited that physical trait. |
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Each year, many groups failed to produce offspring or the offspring were depredated prior to sampling. |
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Well, it's your turn to change our offspring the next time he soils his diaper. |
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Hereditary rulers are even freer because they do not have to consider how to help their offspring up the greasy pole. |
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Guilt-ridden parents tried to bribe their offspring with money and gifts they could ill afford. |
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The asterisk denotes the methyl farnesoate level at which gynandromorphic offspring were produced. |
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There were no cases of extrapair paternity among 122 offspring from 53 broods detectable by minisatellite or microsatellite DNA fingerprinting. |
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In the thornbug treehopper, females defend their aggregated offspring from predators. |
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The outcome ratio of the offspring genotype derived from the Punnett square describes the average, or expected, outcome of crosses. |
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Consider, for example, an unimprinted gene whose expression increases fetal growth and thereby offspring fitness. |
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Since the human mind begetteth of itself as it were an offspring of its own, its consciousness, whereby it knows itself. |
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In some eating establishments it appears to be a serious crime for your offspring to talk above a whisper or wriggle slightly in their seats. |
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In many eusocial wasps, nests are founded by single females that remain alone until offspring emergence. |
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Son Of A Preacher Man was the album's most successful offspring but every track sparkles with a radiant beauty. |
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I remember my mother just catching me before I handed my Sunday coat to the ragman and before someone else's offspring wore it. |
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However, preliminary genetic analyses showed offspring admixture was probably caused by apicultural drift. |
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This will permit breeding cattle that ranchers will know are more likely to produce consistently tender offspring. |
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It would not be right to close a chapter about art in the digital era while neglecting the truest offspring of the new media. |
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Fewer than a dozen of those whoopers continue to migrate with their adoptive parents, but none of them has yet produced offspring. |
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Nests are built by animals from a variety of taxa, and serve as receptacles for eggs and developing offspring. |
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It would operate like inbreeding, which increases the odds of offspring inheriting the same deleterious recessive allele from both parents. |
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On occasion, families are observed where both parents have a recessive single gene disorder and yet have normal offspring. |
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The refectory table in the dining room is long enough to seat her large family, both the children she adopted and her own four offspring. |
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Suspicion is first aroused if breeding wrens find a nestling home alone, as the imposter will eject all the natural offspring. |
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The sites were the lairs of Allosaurus, places to which adults brought food to feed their offspring. |
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The rest of the flock are heavily in lamb but I won't be expecting any offspring as they are badly injured. |
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Brood parasitic birds lay eggs in the nests of host birds that raise the parasitic offspring to independence. |
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A single egg cell replicates itself, and the offspring cells in turn replicate themselves, and so on. |
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Horses, zebras and donkeys are probably descended from an equine kind, since they can interbreed, although the offspring are sterile. |
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Packs are typically composed of an alpha pair and their offspring, including young of previous years. |
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The female generally has much less reproductive potential than the male, and she invests significantly more time and energy in each offspring. |
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Indeed, he discovered on Saturday evening that you know you are there when you see the zonkey, the zebra's offspring with a donkey. |
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All four animals will eventually return to zoos in China, but their offspring will be returned to wildlife reserves. |
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Territorial males sired the majority of offspring, but residents and transients also sired small numbers of nestlings. |
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But anteaters with longer tongues found more ants and so were able to better survive to have more, and healthier offspring. |
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Watching their offspring struggle for glory on the tennis court, mothers and fathers are among the most reviled people in sport. |
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Traditionally, male babies were valued much more highly than female offspring. |
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The chromosome from the father determines whether the offspring becomes male or female. |
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The results of our study provide insight into the importance of post-emergence offspring mortality in the life history of a long-lived organism. |
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Even when crossbreeding creates a viable hybrid, the offspring often inherits multiple copies of each parents' chromosomes, or sets of genes. |
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The family line is passed through the male heir and so it is important to people to have a male offspring. |
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All the lions and lionesses here are of a hybrid stock and thus are prone to producing defective offspring, it is pointed out. |
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High juvenile mortality often leads to conception of a second litter of offspring, born from December to April. |
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Of the 169 litters born during the study period, 73 failed to produce any offspring to weaning. |
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The study team says such live-born offspring are armed with teeth similar to those of the egg hatchlings. |
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It was however simply a plumed seed of rosebay willowherb whose offspring in a late summer breeze swirl through the air like snow in winter. |
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According to Bell's data, longevous parents add as much as twenty years to the average life span of their offspring. |
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It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring. |
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I hope that confessing the loveableness of your offspring inspires neither your rage nor jealousy. |
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The offspring may be presented with a fait accompli, or possibly a choice of partner, but it is made clear she has to marry. |
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Male salties are such nice guys that they even eat their own young, so mother croc has much work to do in preserving her offspring. |
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For example, they found that although female sand lizards appeared to mate randomly, unrelated males sired more offspring. |
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Other males and male offspring have no recourse but either to accept celibacy, look elsewhere, or kill the father. |
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An emphasis on male offspring and the male line is found throughout the country. |
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Thus, the benefits to offspring of male incubation may be reduced in various species. |
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Some females even adjust the ratio of male to female offspring depending on the circumstances. |
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Also, how many males will want their offspring to suffer male pattern baldness? |
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Territorial males sired, on average, significantly more offspring per reproductive season than peripherals. |
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Black mambas do not interact beyond mating and males do not contribute effort to raising offspring. |
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I always found myself embarrassed when confronted with pictures of scraggy or sagging wives and overfed, grinning offspring. |
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Genes that tend to masculinize the fetus will increase when there is an advantage to having male offspring. |
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The princess was the offspring of the marriage of King Pisebkhan with a Theban. |
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Members of the same species can mate and breed to produce fertile offspring. |
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In a follow-up study, the researchers mated unexposed rats with offspring of treated moms. |
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The necessity of maternal care to offspring survival is the topic of Chapter Two. |
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Finally, by mapping the location of maternally related offspring, we characterize areas that individual females use for reproduction. |
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The large macaws usually fly around in pairs, sometimes accompanied by their offspring. |
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The key is that the promise was made to Abraham and to his seed, that is, to one seed, to one offspring. |
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The role of certainty of paternity in determining the degree and nature of male investment in offspring is equivocal. |
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When a male tiger is crossed with a female lion, there can be an offspring called a tiglon. |
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They sit at the kids' bedsides, fanning and comforting their cancer-ridden offspring. |
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Not only is there the worry about how their beloved offspring will cope away from home, but there can also be a huge sense of loss. |
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Humans who developed a spiritual sense thrived and bequeathed that trait to their offspring. |
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The common practice of mixed parents here seems to be to give any offspring a western first name and a Japanese middle name. |
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The survey found that many parents go on providing help with money matters for their offspring into their middle age and beyond. |
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The all-female condition has been consistently transmitted maternally to offspring for 22 generations. |
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Since the radish and cabbage belong to different genera, the offspring resulting from this cross is called a bigeneric hybrid. |
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One study revealed a 13 percent risk of bipolar disorder among offspring of persons with the disorder. |
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One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring. |
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Of course, it is wrong to nag, pressurise, coax, cajole or emotionally blackmail one's offspring into providing grandchildren. |
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Around 8 a.m., the oldest of his three offspring, all girls aged ten through twelve, would load up and head for Castries. |
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The high female infection rate also spells trouble for the next generation of bears since infected mothers transmit the mites to their offspring. |
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Cub aggression, however, is not necessarily higher among offspring of high-ranking mothers, the study says. |
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So cultures will become more unalike as humans make average different decisions about behavioral characteristics in their offspring. |
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I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring. |
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The immediate flaw is that these strictly paired couples do not intercopulate, and so cannot bear offspring. |
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Some males sire many offspring, and many males sire no offspring, a dynamic that intensifies male-male competition. |
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Two of the control males had most likely sired one and two offspring, respectively, in one nest each. |
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We collected DNA samples from 811 offspring from 45 litters that were collectively sired by 48 males. |
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Not only social mating success but also the ability of males to sire offspring is related to the expression of secondary sexual characters. |
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Information on mating and spacing patterns was obtained by mapping offspring sired by individual males. |
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About 20 percent of males mature when only 2 years old and spend their lives siring offspring in other males' nests. |
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I have sired no offspring, created no universes, I cannot walk through walls and I've never been killed at Easter. |
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A total of 989 female ducks were studied over three generations, as well as 4025 purebred offspring and 4125 male mule offspring. |
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In one year, two rats can produce as many as one thousand offspring and in eight months a group of twenty mice can multiply to two thousand. |
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Is it the slattern who generates offspring solely for the sake of the allotment they command? |
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Here he connects to that discussion the situation of the wretched offspring who are undutiful toward their parents. |
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In parthenogenesis, an unfertilized egg can start dividing and still produce a normal offspring. |
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That was unfilial conduct, Mencius said, but compared to not getting married at all, and having no offspring, that was not important. |
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The offspring of a mating between two purebred dogs of different breeds is a mongrel, a mutt. |
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Why then don't red-eared sliders in this population, and turtles generally, produce several large offspring in a single burst of reproduction? |
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The botanic garden grows a few of the plants, but they're all offspring of the same parent. |
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However, world events and history seem to have been shaped by the offspring of an illegitimate son of a common bowman. |
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From there, it pretty much boils down to so-and-so begot so-and-so, with certain offspring taking the high road while others took the low. |
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Researchers bred mice and monitored their offspring for DNA mutations passed through the sperm of the father. |
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Witches and sorcerers were thought by many to be the offspring of such unions. |
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Helpers are generally young from previous broods that provide care for their parents' offspring. |
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Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring. |
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Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. |
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Both people and papayas have specialized chromosomes that carry genes that determine the gender of their offspring. |
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The temperature at which the eggs of ectothermic vertebrates incubate can influence several phenotypic traits of offspring. |
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Female F 1 offspring of this cross were allowed to oviposit as virgins to produce the F 2 males for mapping. |
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Females are viviparous and give birth to a single litter of up to five offspring. |
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That is why emus have many children but cannot fly and why bustards can fly but only have two offspring each season. |
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Consequently, if that once-removed cousin has a child, that offspring will be your first cousin twice removed, and so on. |
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The objurgation does not sound like an English papa laying down the law to his errant offspring. |
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Being born in the US bestows US citizenship on the offspring and eliminates the obligatory military service requirement. |
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The advantage of mate eating for the female may be that it provides a conveniently handy source of protein for herself and her offspring. |
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Set in a seniors' home, it explores a romance between a couple of octogenarians and the discomfort it causes their offspring. |
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After producing a foal, her periods of estrus are more difficult to detect, and she remains with the father of her offspring. |
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Although it may deeply embarrass their teenage offspring, parents love to record family outings and special occasions for posterity. |
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In all cases, the parents revealed their offspring were kicking a ball, handling a racquet or racing about before their fifth birthday. |
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Admittedly, for its target audience of parents and accompanying offspring this is a safe bet. |
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Leaving a small child at day care can be a traumatic experience for both the parents and their offspring. |
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Jim warned him prior to introducing him to Hannah that the youngest Dawson offspring is a charmer. |
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The best solution on offer rests solely with the parents, as their offspring are a reflection of them. |
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Parents let their offspring roam the streets quite happily, not knowing what they are up to. |
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When parents accuse their offspring of treating the place like a hotel they are usually quite accurate. |
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They play the offspring of two warring criminal families who join forces to try and bring peace to the neighbourhood. |
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When my offspring were tiny, it was the thing that made it so you could tell which of their drawings was of me. |
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Many parents have pulled their offspring out of school altogether, worried about the chaos on the streets. |
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However, to avoid paying strangers to look after their offspring, should parents be forced to ask such a task of their own parents? |
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Parents expect too much from their offspring and the children are unable to meet it. |
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Grandparents, particularly grandmothers, cared for the offspring of married sons or daughters. |
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Parents have a special seating area from where they can keep a close eye on their offspring as the children burn off some excess energy. |
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Even animals chastise their offspring with a little nip of pain to teach them to behave. |
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However, the real way to make money in Wildlife Park is to get your animals to mate and then sell the offspring. |
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The young bird is the offspring of the well-known pair of black eagles that nests in the Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden. |
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When the mouse bred with a normal female, his offspring retained the ability to fight off cancer. |
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In Kekexili, he encountered large groups of female antelopes with their offspring. |
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It is the offspring of the onion fly, which sometimes flits about among the young onions at this season. |
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Those calves include the offspring of the cow that tested positive for the disease. |
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When fully grown up, the offspring of birds and animals abandon their parents, and carve out a world of their own. |
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The first offspring of the animal is passed on to a neighbouring poor family, so that the benefit is multiplied each year. |
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Soon a little coop was constructed in the back garden and the duck and her eight offspring were installed in their new home. |
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After that, she lived alone in the woods, surrounded by the offspring of her cream-colored cat. |
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European boars interbred with the Polynesians' small pigs, and the offspring ran wild. |
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Indeed, 100 years of germ theory has spawned impressive germ-fighting offspring. |
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After 1840 many Metis buffalo hunters, the offspring of European fur traders and Cree and Ojibwa women, also joined these groups. |
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Some studies have concluded that mothers could be harming the educational prospects of their offspring by returning to work too early. |
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The olinguito is mostly active at night, eats fruit as well as meat, rarely leaves the trees, and has one offspring at a time. |
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Their offspring may have to become clerks in the shopping markets instead of cashing in on the reputation of their parents. |
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For a fee, it records the offspring of all AKC-registered parents in its stud book and provides them with official certificates of pedigree. |
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Our genetic analysis detected some aberrations, such as the presence of four hexaploid offspring in the progeny study. |
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Human mothers, by contrast, don't ovulate again right after birth, nor do they produce offspring with more than one genetic father at a time. |
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The offspring of unions between Cherokees became members of their mother's clan. |
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Female Bornean tree hole frogs lay their eggs in the rotting holes of hollow tree stumps so that offspring can grow in a pool of water. |
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I cried, watching my beloved offspring happily working side by side like carefree, cherubic children from the days of yore. |
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Unlike their offspring, who have few memories of Laos, these community elders have not forgotten their homeland. |
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In the tropics, where life's maximal abundance is, the young offspring remains unrecognized and nameless unless scientifically described. |
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For an animal parent to neglect its own offspring would therefore be for it to behave contrary to its nature. |
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For example, when an offspring and parent share rare alleles, confidence in parentage is higher than when sharing common alleles. |
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Pigs carry a variety of viruses, and some viruses pass from pig to offspring. |
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In my garden both the wildling and its hybrid offspring, in shades of pink and red, seed around on my heavy, acid soil. |
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Another measurement of paternal effort is the intensity with which the father defends his offspring. |
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She then received patriarchal permission to pursue kinship with offspring of creditable lineage! |
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In a patrilineal society, having many male offspring was a big concern and a much-invoked wish. |
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Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman. |
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Does the number of surviving offspring in a clutch vary predictably as a function of a parent's success in obtaining mates? |
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The peahen chooses to mate with the male that will most likely produce strong, healthy offspring. |
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Such sound shifts in comparative linguistics parallel, almost uncannily, the slow march of genetic mutations as offspring populations gradually separate from a parent stock. |
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Their offspring were raised by an aunt and a succession of nursemaids. |
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But her mood shifts when the suspicious death of newspaper tycoon Luther Read, a patriarch unbeloved by his offspring, sets Lucy on the trail of a possible parricide. |
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Progeny tests employing molecular markers allow the identification of individuals originated by sexual means among the offspring of a facultative apomict. |
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Even back in the Manhattan Project in 1943 it was found that animals exposed to radiation lived longer and had more offspring than uncontaminated controls. |
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Being the offspring of a male donkey and a mare, mules are sterile. |
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The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan. |
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Collared dresses resembled prep school outfits from centuries past, while velvet dresses screamed royal offspring. |
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The co-operative breeding system of callitrichids appears to be unique amongst primates, and serves to help the breeding female care for the offspring. |
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The offspring of control animals were kept under the same conditions. |
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Humourless and heavy-hearted love only produces hate as its offspring. |
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A half century later there are still lots of ways in which child-rearing practices might be having unrecognized subtle effects upon human offspring. |
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This week they're covering Angelina's baby bump and Jennifer Aniston's single-girl sorrow, as well as Nicole Richie, Christina Aguilera and J. Lo's baby offspring. |
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Given his philandering reputation, it is perhaps unsurprising that there are several people who claim to be his offspring. |
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If you need a show for millennials, why not hand it over to Ronan Farrow, the offspring of celebrity parents. |
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In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed. |
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Each female greater horseshoe bat can produce only one offspring at a time, said Brock Fenton, a biology professor and bat expert at the University of Western Ontario. |
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Not surprisingly, offspring from clutches with no malformed young survived significantly better than offspring from clutches in which young were malformed. |
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The works of the authors became unfashionable, and when he immigrated to the Lower East Side in 1907 he found himself a back number, outdistanced by his offspring. |
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Information on the length of gestation of these offspring was obtained from inquiring if the child was born at term and, if not, by how many weeks he or she was early or late. |
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But in this short time, a male can contribute more offspring to the population than the female by commanding the territories of several breeding tigresses. |
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As in all mammals, the female provides milk for her offspring. |
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The offspring of the marriage guidance service was launched to help young people through the turbulent period during and after their parents' separation. |
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Despite the presence of a pericentric inversion of chromosome 2, fertile offspring are produced by interbreeding of the different subspecies in captive conditions. |
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Just what choices people will make once they can control the genetic coding of their offspring is one of the most important questions of the 21st century. |
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Even now, the offspring of the perpetrators deny it ever happened. |
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The fruit of the coconut tree includes the buoyant husk surrounding the coconut, which helps the seeds float downstream and spread the tree's offspring far and wide. |
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Maternal mass was correlated with male offspring mass and comb length. |
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Not only did the insertion work, the extra base pair was kept by offspring of the original bacterium. |
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Far from being honoured by their offspring they feel as if they are tolerated, if only because they put Chinese carry-outs on the table and designer labels on their backs. |
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Today, as our ravenous offspring turns 2, Ms. Brown sits down and subjects herself to another grilling. |
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So the seats could be a boon for occasional outings with your offspring and grandchildren, travelling congenially under one roof instead of split up in two cars. |
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From the total offspring obtained, 75 intercrosses were made. |
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The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre. |
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Not only were they consigning their offspring to a lifetime of obesity, it was claimed, but they were also causing congestion in residential areas. |
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Modes of transport progressed from frontpack to trike to toddling feet as our trio of offspring grew, but the pull-behind grocery cart remained a constant. |
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This, she thinks, supports her theory, because contentiously perhaps today women's evolutionary role is to protect both themselves and their offspring from disease. |
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In many taxa, such as mammals and Drosophila, the males are heterogametic, and, thus, hybrid male offspring are more prone to be inviable or sterile. |
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Researchers planned to breed the chickens and study their offspring. |
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Many parents also introduce limited alcohol at home when their offspring are young, on the grounds that they must learn how to handle the substance. |
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In the 2012 survey, which Kramer co-authored, 94 percent of donors were open to contact with their offspring. |
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If the probability of multiple mating is random, by chance alone adults with more offspring sampled would be more likely to be detected as having mated polygamously. |
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In men's wills, usufruct on the husband's property is left to widows under condition that they give up their right to dowry and extradotal goods in favour of offspring. |
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Upmarket and sometimes a little posey the house is actually an old family palazzo, three floors of which have been turned into a club-bar by the offspring of the owners. |
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Owners neuter male dogs and cats when the flow of testosterone in their bloodstream generates either unmanageable behaviour or unwanted offspring. |
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With formerly segregated genres shacking up like bunnies, and often producing smarter, more attractive offspring, electronic-emo-chamber-country just had to happen. |
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Woe betide the mother who has been forced into to having a sense of humor about disciplining her child, for she will bear no more offspring, but maybe get a dog instead. |
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In this species, both parents provision their offspring predigested carrion from a vertebrate carcass, and the larvae beg for food from their parents. |
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And with a UK work culture which values presenteeism and overtime, ambitious young men are left with little time to dangle their offspring on their knee. |
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Many parents moan about their offspring rising at the crack of dawn. |
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Gleefully, my offspring grabs at the gobbets of uncooked lamb, squeaking and cheeping as she voraciously devours her meal in a matter or a few minutes. |
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Many species of animals gather in groups to rest or raise their offspring. |
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It could mean that donors would lose their right to anonymity once their offspring turn 18, allowing children to trace their biological mothers and fathers. |
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In fact, children of the famous are more likely to be critically pasted rather than approved, and the more successful the parent, the tougher it will be on their offspring. |
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I love birdies just as much as you love horses and used to breed and sell parakeets all the time, but I've since slowed down and am left with a few offspring. |
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The examiners, who had received previous training in the assessment of physical and dysmorphic characteristics, examined the offspring for any clinical signs or abnormalities. |
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I do know, however, my offspring and others consider me to be in my dotage but in my many years until now, a bankers draft was considered as good as solid gold. |
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Poor maternal diet before conception can result in offspring with reduced birth weights and increased risk of developing type II diabetes and obesity. |
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Factors that affect biotic potential include the age at which reproduction begins, how long individuals remain reproductive, and how much offspring are produced by each reproductive event. |
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Are we not at long last tired of turning the reins of government over to the underqualified offspring of former presidents? |
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A traditional craft, it is passed on from parents to their offspring. |
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For songbirds, early risers may have a greater chance of successfully producing offspring and passing along their chronotype to the next generation. |
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Parents stood up to agonize about their responsibility, as cosigners, for the loans of their now unemployed offspring. |
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Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned household pets. |
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Chet is one of several offspring of big Hollywood icons searching to become the next Tupac or Eminem. |
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All analyses were adjusted for clustering of offspring within families. |
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If they were to mate, their offspring would be biological monstrosities. |
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These karakia were to make their offspring plentiful for his food. |
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Pedigree sows and boars are retained for breeding while their offspring join the food chain in keeping with the trust's motto Eat them to keep them. |
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Orangutan offspring stay with their mothers until they're seven or eight years old, but orangutans are on the lower end of the sociability scale among great apes. |
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Thus deleterious recessives had not been eliminated from the population to the extent that consanguineous matings were harmless in terms of offspring viability. |
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Female koalas give birth to a single offspring every two years. |
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A maximum of 50 offspring were tested from each ENU-treated male to prevent the recovery of identical mutations from the limited population of spermatogonial stem cells. |
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Both of his offspring now reside in their motherland, Germany. |
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Did he mean that sons of men should join with the angels in saying alleluia or did he mean that the offspring of humans and angels should be saying it? |
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It seems clear that all offspring should benefit when a parent produces an alarm signal or intercepts a predator and prevents it from reaching the brood. |
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Donkeys, mules, oxen, and water buffalo carry loads, as do the offspring of the temperamental yaks, which are kept only to crossbreed with cattle. |
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The offspring of older fathers show subtle impairments on tests of neurocognitive ability. |
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Then a male who is unmistakably outstanding in health and vigor offers females that mate with him an inherited healthiness in their offspring that is well above average. |
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For this reason and others, some countries limit the number of offspring a donor can create. |
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When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch. |
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He says that, unlike rats and mice, the rodents give birth to only one offspring at a time, so a precautionary approach should be taken toward their conservation. |
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This virus is not spread to the offspring as beetles reproduce. |
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If a formula is successful, it will spawn myriad vomitous offspring, which will be rammed down our throats until we are no longer able to appreciate the original. |
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Black holes could therefore be the vehicle for a kind of cosmic natural selection, in which universes are reproductively favoured if they make lots of black-hole offspring. |
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One of the best-known forms of mutualism involves insects that pollinate a host plant, then deposit offspring that will ultimately consume many of the seeds. |
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They lost out in the struggle for existence and produced no offspring. |
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Mothers of sportsmen and sportswomen play an enormously important role in the sporting lives of their offspring and yet, very often, that contribution is unrecognised. |
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Mary Soames is an exception to the rule that gilded offspring endure life rather than enjoy it. |
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Males are expected to provide less care to offspring sired by other males. |
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It also seemed that while it might be expected that parents who talked and interacted with their children would have more creative offspring, the reverse was true. |
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I agree with a lot the letter writer says but not the partwe overindulged our offspring. |
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As academics become a priority at some preschools, parents should worry that their offspring may not develop much-needed social skills. |
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Arsenicals were used for about 60 years, but beetles developed resistance, produced resistant offspring, and arsenicals became ineffective. |
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She also sees many of these parents pay the price of overparenting when their still-dependent college-graduate offspring come home to live. |
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Kelly's team recommended culling hybrid species when possible, as has been done for the offspring of red wolves and coyotes in the United States. |
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Some of these relationships consist of matrilineally related females and their dependent offspring. |
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The common vampire bat nurses its offspring beyond that and young vampire bats achieve independence later in life than other species. |
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Females in their second autumn can produce one or very rarely two offspring per year. |
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The offspring will remain with their mothers for almost one full year, leaving around the time the next season's offspring are produced. |
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It is the naturally occurring offspring of the purple pitcher plant and the yellow trumpet, known botanically as Sarracenia x catesbaei. |
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Germ cells are the cells in animals necessary for the generation of offspring and perpetuation of species. |
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Returning gut bacteria to germfree mice re-created normal caution in their offspring. |
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