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The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.

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The act of making copies.

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Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.

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A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.

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Jim was proud of the Rembrandt reproduction he owned.

Reproduction by budding also occurs.

The individual is the product of sexual reproduction; a person is an individual of lower rank, which may be produced asexually.

Instruments such as the telautograph and telewriter are apparatus for transmitting a facsimile of handwriting inscribed on a paper at one end of a line, the reproduction being made automatically at the other end of the line at the same time that the message is being written.

Reproduction uniforms of Confederate soldiers are available from online suppliers, sutlers and brick and mortar retail stores.

Reproduction is both asexual and sexual.

Not only that, but the lingerie is made using vintage patterns so you know you are getting an identical reproduction.

As already stated, there occur in the Hydromedusae two distinct types of person, the polyp and the medusa; and either of them is capable of non-sexual reproduction by budding, a process which may lead to the formation of colonies, composed of more or fewer individuals combined and connected together.

Scientists worried about the survival of the race rush their cloning program, and hurry into asexual reproduction to maintain humanity in the face of the threat.

Nevertheless, the function of reproduction is occasionally exercised by larvae.

Under electric bulbs at night, the reproduction can look a little grainy.

Museum reproduction rings of historical poesy rings can also be meaningful.

These clutches are available today in both vintage, reproduction vintage, and modernistic styles.

Nearly every possible method of reproduction occurs amongst the Hydromedusae.

It is in these parasitic forms that we meet with the method of reproduction by sporogony described above.

Reproduction is mainly asexual, the females producing living young without the agency of a male.

The dynamical series of stages in nature, the forms in which the ideal structure of nature is realized, are matter, as the equilibrium of the fundamental expansive and contractive forces; light, with its subordinate processes - magnetism, electricity, and chemical action; organism, with its component phases of reproduction, irritability and sensibility.'

The life of the plant (see Plants) makes itself manifest in the processes of growth, development and reproduction.

The reproduction of the higher plants takes place either asexually by the formation of buds or organs answering thereto, or sexually by the production of an embryo plant within the seed.

Reproduction is chiefly effected by the vegetative method.

Asexual reproductive cells are not infrequent, but sexual reproduction even in its initial stages is unknown.

Reproduction by conjugation is also known as isogamy, by fertilization as oogamy.

At the exhibition of Abruzzese art, held at Chieti in 1905, fine specimens of goldsmiths' work of the 15th and r6th centuries, of majolica of the 17th and 18th centuries, and of tapestries and laces were brought together; and the reproduction of some of these is still carried on, the small town of Castelli being the centre of the manufacture.

The cubic zirconia, sterling silver and marcasite version of Bella's engagement ring is a beautiful but affordable reproduction of the Twilight engagement ring.

Sometimes images produced on office PC or Macintosh desktop publishing systems may not look the same as on a CD reproduction center's system which may use more advanced and different technology.

Carbohydrate elimination is the first and foremost step to take when dieting to treat candida overgrowth as bacteria thrives on them for life and reproduction.

By cutting back on your intake of breads, crackers, pasta, sweets, fresh fruits and dried fruits to within 20 to 60 grams of carbohydrate a day, you will "starve" the fungal population and reduce its reproduction ability.

For those who like a retro look but don't want to fuss with the real thing, a lot of online-based companies are making reproduction lingerie for all the sexy kittens out there.

These aliens are semi-permeable, almost gaseous beings, and have three genders required for reproduction.

The Cylons, wanting to experiment and see if love is the component they lacked for biological reproduction, sent another Eight to assist Helo.

Whether you are a member of a Civil War reenactment group or need a realistic uniform for a costume ball, wearing a reproduction Confederate uniform will make you feel like to are back in the 1860s.

The website American Civil War offers reproduction Confederate soldier costume uniforms for children and adults.

Wearing a reproduction Confederate uniform makes you feel as if you have gone back in time.

When re-enactors build their armoury, medieval helmet reproduction becomes a factor.

Protohydra is a marine genus characterized by the absence of tentacles, by a great similarity to Hydra in histological structure, and by reproduction by transverse fission.

It may be that in particular cases particular modes of cultivation disfavour the host; or that the soil, climate or seasons do so; but overwhelming evidence exists to show that the principal causes of epidemics reside in circumstances which favor the spread, nutrition and reproduction of the pest, and the lesson to be learnt is, that precautions against the establishment of such favoring conditions must be sought.

Cases of parthenogenetic reproduction, or reproduction without the intervention of the male, have been recorded in the case of two genera (Filistata and Tegenaria), and may be commoner than is usually supposed.

As the great nature-goddess, the attributes of fertility and reproduction are characteristically hers, as also the accompanying immorality which originally, perhaps, was often nothing more than primitive magic. As patroness of the hunt, later identification with Artemis was inevitable.

His studies of the eruptive rocks of Corsica, Santorin and elsewhere; his researches on the artificial reproduction of eruptive rocks, and his treatise on the optical characters of felspars deserve special mention; but he was perhaps best known for the joint work which he carried on with his friend Michel Levy.

Deeper than this, microscopic life is scanty; there is practically no reproduction and growth.

In Pleistocene times, then, when there were prolonged glacial ages, the sea-level was lowered and at the same time there was a reduction in sea temperature, so that the rate of reproduction of the coral polypes, and so the growth of reefs, was diminished.

His principal work in this line, Theorie de la morale, is little more than a somewhat patronizing reproduction of Kant.

Le Quatrieme Evangile, one thousand large pages long, is possibly over-confident in its detailed application of the allegorical method; yet it constitutes a rarely perfect sympathetic reproduction of a great mystical believer's imperishable intuitions.

The appendages of the mesosoma generally suppressed; in the more primitive forms one or two pairs may be retained as organs subservient to reproduction or silkspinning.

The stateliest is the national monument to commemorate the victory of Waterloo, originally intended to be a reproduction of the Parthenon.

It is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Ada Sanctorum, exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best work of its kind in English literature.

Thus Bionomics is treated in such articles as Evolution, Heredity, Variation, Mendelism, Reproduction, Sex, &C.; Zoo-dynamics under Medicine, Surgery, Physiology, Anatomy, Embryology, and allied articles; Plasmology under Cytology, Protoplasm, &C.; and Philosophical Zoology under numerous headings, Evolution, Biology, &C. See also Zoological Distribution, Palaeontology, Ocranography, Microtomy, &C.

His power of rapid and exhaustive observation and of accurate pictorial reproduction was phenomenal.

We do not yet know whether such absolute blending is possible or not, or whether all apparent blending is only a more or less minutely subdivided " mosaic " of non-combinable characters of the parents, in fact whether the combinations due to heredity in reproduction are ever analogous to chemical compounds or are always comparable to particulate mixtures.

Another similar passage is quoted by Richter from folio 404b of the reproduction of the Codice Atlantico, in Milan, published by the Italian government.

This is probably the first notice of the application of the camera to cartography and the reproduction of drawings, which is one of its principal uses at the present time.