Besides carrying out the basic function of reproduction, the members of the reproductive caste generally select the site for a new colony and excavate the first galleries.
These are women and men's socially mediated reproductive functions (Witt 2011a, 29) and they differ from the biological function of reproduction, which roughly corresponds to sex on the standard sex/gender distinction.
Our study is one of the first to assess proximate and ultimate explanations for changes in personality as a function of reproduction and parenting.
For example, in biology, an organism needs to execute the functions of reproduction and growth, at some desired performance levels dictated by the environment, in order to survive, grow and propagate its species.
Here are the facts: Infertility is a disease of the reproductive system that impairs the body's ability to perform the basic function of reproduction.
The appropriate onset of gametogenesis and steroido genesis is fundamental for the function of reproduction in the adult.
Similarly, a living being comes about when a higher form lends functions of digestion, reproduction, sensation and the like to matter, these functions being accomplished by the causal operations of matter, so that the biological sciences are subalternate to natural science.
The model is based on the observation that numbers of cases increase at a rate that is a function of the reproduction number and the generation time of the disease (17 ).
Recently, it was shown that functional transfer of mitochondrial genes to the nucleus is more common in selfing or clonal plants than in outcrossing plants - the direct illustration of conservative function of sexual reproduction [ 97].
We also performed a sensitivity analysis to evaluate the effect of parameters variation on the optimal time t* at which treatment level changes as a function of the reproduction number, in order to minimize the final size of the pandemic [see additional file 1].
