Sentence examples for offspring grow from inspiring English sources

For some of us (not Emin, it's true, since she's not had children) it's a time of expanding space, as our offspring grow up and manage to do more for themselves.

Allman says it's most likely a genetic thing: natural selection favors those who survive long enough to help the offspring grow up.

Another perk: The bank now archives blood samples from each donor in case further testing is needed as donor offspring grow up.

As the young offspring grow and become free-swimming fry, the parental activities are distributed more equally between the parents, which appears to be typical behavior in other types of cichlids as well.

One explanation of these apparently contradictory generalizations is that selection often changes direction, because offspring grow up in a different place and at a different time from their parents.

GDM offspring grow more slowly after birth through the first 1 2 years of life with rapid weight gain thereafter [ 6, 49], and are more likely to become overweight.

Some foods act as methylators; a study of a species of fat mice prone to diabetes and cancer found that when they were put on a diet rich in methylators, their offspring grew up thin and without an increased risk of disease.

The majority of C. stenophylla offspring grew (separately) outside shrubs in the semi-arid (63.9%) and the arid zones (45.8%).

However, significant differences were also found between offspring growing in the same conditions but characterised by different water availability during the growth of the maternal generation.

The differences between plants with different stress histories in the maternal generation were more pronounced in barley offspring grown at drought than at optimum soil water availability.

The team measured various direct costs, such as how long the female lived after bearing offspring, and indirect benefits, such as how attractive her offspring grew up to be.