The phrase "provide offspring" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to refer to the act of producing offspring, either through childbirth or asexual reproduction. For example, "The fish population was able to replenish itself, as the adult fish provided offspring."
However, whereas almond toxicity is controlled by one gene such that mutant plants provide offspring that are also non-toxic, toxicity in oak is determined by multiple genes, meaning that offspring of non-poisonous oaks are rarely non-poisonous themselves.
The female fish also provide offspring with immunoglobulins, lysozymes, protease inhibitors and different types of lectins [ 68, 69].
Because adult dung beetles provide offspring with all the nutritional resources for their development, maternal effects strongly influence male phenotype.
Indeed, parental dung beetles provide offspring with all resources required for their development, which is in turn the primary determinant of adult phenotype, making male morph largely determined by parental provisioning decisions [ 34].
Hence in hard times when food might be scarce, daughters were more valuable because their chances of providing offspring would have been greater than sons, who might get killed or fail to find a mate.
The ambition of most families is to provide their offspring with a higher education or, if not that, a good job.
Few of them, though, are pottier than Nick Clegg's suggestion that parents should be able to dip into their pension pots in order to provide their offspring with the down payment on a property.
The report on "anchor babies" noted how some rich Chinese women come to the United States to give birth in order to provide their offspring with American citizenship, as well as to get around China's strictly enforced "one-child" policy.
And the ensuing acrobatics and pyrotechnics that ensue between November and January to provide our offspring with the slightest extra edge in the battle to bankrupt ourselves so we can plant a sticker on our car window that names some tiny college no one has ever heard of.
The problem can be solved well by maternal immunization, which can provide the offspring with high titer of maternal antibody [ 4].
This was insufficient to provide the offspring with an adequate amount of resources, resulting in reduced pup development and increased pre-weaning mortality rates.
