The phrase "a offspring" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an offspring" because "offspring" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The mother bird cared for her young offspring until they were ready to fly."
Alternatives: "a young" or "a descendant".
The total number of offspring studied was from 15 unsupplemented litters (52 A vy/ a offspring) and 12 genistein-supplemented litters (44 A vy/ a offspring).
A vy/ a offspring were weighed, digitally photographed, and rated for coat-color phenotype.
In this experiment, we compared the a/ a offspring of obese yellow diabetic A vy/ a dams with genetically identical a/ a offspring of lean pseudoagouti A vy/ a dams (Fig. 1A).
A vy/ a offspring were weighed on a calibrated digital scale every 5 weeks from week 25 to week 60.
Maternal genistein supplementation shifted the coat-color distribution of genetically identical day 21 A vy/ a offspring toward the pseudoagouti phenotype (chi-square, p = 0.0005).
In this model, a/ a offspring exhibit only subtle defects in lipid metabolism and do not progress to a disease state if they are maintained on a standard chow diet.
An offspring of a cannibalistic female was paired in a Petri dish with an offspring of a non-cannibalistic mother.
By taking away the beat, spoken word is an offspring, a love-child if you will, of the hip-hop so many of us loved growing up.
To Latin Americans, the band is a popular rock act with some cleverness -- an Offspring or a Beck.
The sample was split into three subsamples: an offspring sample, a candidate father sample and a candidate mother sample.
As headmaster of Auckland Grammar he must have found a thousand ways to say that such and such an offspring was a disgusting toad without offending its parents.
