Sentence examples for capable of reproduction from inspiring English sources
Unlike K-selected species, members of this group are capable of reproduction at a relatively young age; however, many offspring die before they reach reproductive age.
Some species, however, may be physiologically capable of reproduction at a much earlier age.
During this process, molecules slowly grouped, then regrouped, forming ever more efficient means for energy transformation and becoming capable of reproduction.
Classic examples include certain amphibian species in which development is arrested so that the larval form and aquatic habit persist as the organism attains sexual maturity and becomes capable of reproduction.
However, if life is defined as an entity capable of reproduction, then a mule, which is clearly alive yet does not reproduce, would be excluded from the living under this restrictive definition.
From the image of a dog, for example, the intellect abstracts the ideas of being alive, being capable of reproduction and movement, and whatever else might be essential to being a dog.
Augustine's view is not unlike what one finds, for example, in Plato's Timaeus [e.g. 89d-92c] or Aristotle's De Anima [e.g. 414b-415a] where different levels of soul are discussed in terms of ascending degrees of complexity in their capacities, e.g., souls capable only of reproduction and nutrition, or of sensation and locomotion as well, or finally, of rational thinking.
In addition, many apomicts are also capable of sexual reproduction for a flexible reproductive pattern.
It is capable of vegetative reproduction by stolons as well as sexual reproduction.
Some liverworts are capable of asexual reproduction; in bryophytes in general "it would almost be true to say that vegetative reproduction is the rule and not the exception".
Simply switching the mating type in one of the mating partners to MAT1- 1, however, is not sufficient to produce a genotype capable of sexual reproduction with QM6a MAT1- 2. We have used a systems biology approach to identify genes restoring sexual reproduction in the QM6a strain line.
