They also father twice as many offspring with a female that mates with other males.
A mutation could cause parents with genes for bright green coloration to have offspring with a gene for brown coloration.
In time, Cecil turned out to be Cecile, and had offspring with a male harbor seal named Hoover, one of the aquarium's celebrities.
Walk through a Manhattan playground and you'll hear parents responding to their dirt-throwing, swing-stealing offspring with a studied flatness.
Cannibalistic females produced offspring with a prolonged survival time compared to the offspring of females that were prevented from eating males.
In most cases the egg, a stationary, spherical cell, provides the potential offspring with a store of food materials, or yolk, for its early development.
Genetic variability produces some offspring with a greater potential to adapt to new habitats and also to changes induced by the disturbance of the original habitat.
The ambition of most families is to provide their offspring with a higher education or, if not that, a good job.
Micro-organisms typically enact diversification bet-hedging strategies through stochastic phenotype switching, in which reproducing cells give rise to phenotypically distinct offspring with a low (typically 10−1 to 10−5) probability29,30.
SCION is the wild child of the reserved, respectable Toyota family -- the tattooed, body-pierced, trend-setting offspring with a homework assignment: bring some fresh faces into the showrooms.
Offspring with a parental history of AD were more likely to be an APOE ε4 allele carrier (46.5% vs. 21%, p = 0.001) than were offspring without such a parental history.
