Sentence examples for normal reproduction from inspiring English sources

But even in normal reproduction, it seems that some epigenetic marks can persist for a few generations.

But Dr. Jaenisch also made a distinction between cloned embryos and the kind of blastocysts formed during normal reproduction, including embryos fertilized in vitro.

During normal reproduction, the female egg cell matures and ejects half its chromosomes through a series of cell divisions, leaving a single set of chromosomes to combine with the single set that the sperm brings along.

Thus, it provides us with a unique opportunity to study "normal" reproduction is a controlled setting so as to determine which environmental, social, and physiological factors inhibit reproduction in other captive environments.

Harris argued that nothing was sacred about the germline, that all forms of assisted reproduction affect future generations, and that normal reproduction is a "genetic lottery" that often produces birth defects and disease.

These environmental pathways of non-genetic inheritance are not negligible contingencies of normal reproduction and development, but rather are thought to play a key role in the origin of life itself (Dyson 1986) and in the construction of new levels of biological organization, which is a common theme of major transitions in evolutionary history (Jablonka and Lamb 2006).

The LCS (low contact stress) rotating platform TKA system attempts as near-normal reproduction of knee motion as possible, minimising interface stresses by allowing rotation (with this design, the posterior cruciate ligament has to be sacrificed).

Under conditions where normal semelparous reproduction may result in lost reproductive effort, deferral of reproductive effort to a second reproductive bout can realize fitness gains [ 11, 19, 22, 23, 30, 31].

To persist, many unisexual lineages are capable of incorporating unusual reproductive modes that circumvent normal sexual reproduction allowing recombination to occur [ 11, 33].

In this genus normal sexual reproduction yields equal numbers of staminate and pistillate plants, but apomictic reproduction yields only pistillate plants.

Note also that Haemoproteus parabelopolskyi parasites of blackcaps undergo normal sexual reproduction in the vector [15], and strict clonality resulting from asexual reproduction has never been demonstrated for Plasmodium parasites [13].