reproduction
- Noun:
- The biological process by which new individual organisms are generated from their parents: This is the fundamental process of life, ensuring the continuation of species.
- The act or process of making a copy or duplicate of something: This refers to the duplication of an object, image, sound, or piece of information.
- A copy or duplicate of an original item: This is the product of the copying process, such as a printed photograph or a digital file.
Noun (Biological Process):
- Sexual reproduction involves the combination of genetic material from two parents.
- The reproduction of bacteria through cell division is very rapid.
Noun (Act of Copying):
- The museum prohibited the reproduction of the ancient manuscript.
- High-fidelity sound reproduction is a key goal for audio engineers.
Noun (A Copy Itself):
- This painting is a modern reproduction of a famous Renaissance work.
- The document you have is a color reproduction of the original black-and-white treaty.
"Reproduction of": The act of copying or recreating a specific thing.
- The artist focused on the accurate reproduction of light and shadow in her paintings.
"Reproduction rights": The legal permissions granted to copy and distribute a work.
- The publisher secured the reproduction rights for the author's photographs.
In a social/economic context: Can refer to the perpetuation of social structures or conditions.
- The education system can contribute to the reproduction of social inequality.
Reproduce (verb): To produce offspring or to make a copy of something.
- Some plants can reproduce without seeds.
- The machine can reproduce documents in seconds.
Reproductive (adjective): Relating to the biological process of generating offspring.
- The study focused on the reproductive health of the population.
Reproducibility (noun): The ability of an experiment or study to be duplicated with the same results.
- Scientific findings require a high degree of reproducibility.
- Biological sense: Procreation, breeding, generation.
- Copying sense: Replication, duplication, copying, facsimile.
Asexual reproduction: A mode of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes, resulting in offspring genetically identical to the parent.
- Many plants and simple organisms use asexual reproduction.
Sexual reproduction: A mode of reproduction involving the fusion of male and female gametes, resulting in genetically diverse offspring.
- Most animals rely on sexual reproduction.
- "A poor reproduction": A copy that is of low quality or inaccurate.
- The poster was a poor reproduction, with all the colors looking washed out.
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- the act of making copies
- Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
- the process of generating offspring