reproducible
(adjective)
Capable of being reproduced at a different time or place and by different people.
Examples of reproducible in the following topics:
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The Biological Species Concept
- The change will be passed on asexually simply if the reproducing cell possesses the changed trait.
- In short, organisms must be able to reproduce with each other to pass new traits to offspring.
- Dogs of different breeds still have the ability to reproduce.
- The (a) poodle and (b) cocker spaniel can reproduce to produce a breed known as (c) the cockapoo.
- Species that appear similar may not be able to reproduce.
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Plant Reproductive Development and Structure
- Some plants reproduce sexually while others reproduce asexually, in contrast to animal species, which rely almost exclusively on sexual reproduction.
- All plants have the means and corresponding structures for reproducing sexually.
- Plants that reproduce sexually often achieve fertilization with the help of pollinators such as (a) bees, (b) birds, and (c) butterflies.
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Fungi Reproduction
- Fungi can reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing spores, or sexually with homothallic or heterothallic mycelia.
- Fungi reproduce sexually and/or asexually.
- Perfect fungi reproduce both sexually and asexually, while imperfect fungi reproduce only asexually (by mitosis).
- Fungi reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing spores.
- Heterothallic mycelia require two different, but compatible, mycelia to reproduce sexually.
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Methods of Reproducing
- In asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species.
- Organisms that reproduce through asexual reproduction tend to grow in number exponentially.
- Organisms that reproduce sexually yield a smaller number of offspring, but the large amount of variation in their genes makes them less susceptible to disease.
- Many organisms can reproduce sexually as well as asexually.
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Life History Patterns and Energy Budgets
- Organisms that reproduce at an early age have a greater chance of producing offspring, but this is usually at the expense of their growth and the maintenance of their health.
- Small fish, such as guppies, use their energy to reproduce rapidly, but never attain the size that would give them defense against some predators.
- Larger fish, such as bluefin tuna and mako sharks, use their energy to attain a large size, but do so with the risk that they will die before they can reproduce or reproduce to their maximum.
- Semelparous species are those that only reproduce once during their lifetime and then die.
- In contrast, iteroparous species reproduce repeatedly during their lives.
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Types of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
- Animals may reproduce asexually through fission, budding, fragmentation, or parthenogenesis.
- Some sea anemones and some coral polyps also reproduce through fission .
- Many sea stars reproduce asexually by fragmentation.
- Coral polyps reproduce asexually by fission, where an organism splits into two separate organisms.
- Sea stars can reproduce through fragmentation.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Sexual Reproduction
- The fact that most eukaryotes reproduce sexually is evidence of its evolutionary success.
- Indeed, some organisms that lead a solitary lifestyle have retained the ability to reproduce asexually.
- Thus, on average, a sexually-reproducing population will leave more descendants than an otherwise similar asexually-reproducing population.
- Thus, sexually-reproducing organisms alternate between haploid and diploid stages .
- In animals, sexually-reproducing adults form haploid gametes from diploid germ cells.
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Surgical Sterilization
- Surgical sterilization refers to any of a number of surgical techniques that intentionally leave a person unable to reproduce.
- Sterilization refers to any of a number of medical techniques that intentionally leave a person unable to reproduce.
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Damage to Proteins and Nucleic Acids
- A bacteriostatic agent is a biological or chemical agent that stops bacteria from reproducing by targeting DNA replication and proteins.
- A bacteriostatic agent or bacteriostat, abbreviated Bstatic, is a biological or chemical agent that stops bacteria from reproducing, while not necessarily harming them.
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Methods
- Scientific papers need a thorough description of methodology in order to prove that a project meets the criteria of scientific objectivity: a testable hypothesis and reproducible results.
- Hypotheses become accepted theories only when their experimental results are reproducible.
- To ensure that later researchers can replicate your research, and thereby demonstrate that your results are reproducible, it is important that you explain your process very clearly and provide all of the details that would be necessary to repeat your experiment.