parental organism

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• parental — PARENTÁL, Ă, parentali, e, adj. (Rar) Care se referă la părinţi; ereditar. – Din fr. parental. Trimis de valeriu, 03.02.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  parentál s. m., pl. parentáli Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  parentál adj …   Dicționar Român

• sex — /seks/, n. 1. either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions. 2. the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the male and female are distinguished, or the… …   Universalium

• Hard inheritance — is the exact opposite of the term soft inheritance , coined by Ernst Mayr to contrast ideas about inheritance. Hard inheritance states that characteristics of an organism s offspring (passed on through DNA) will not be affected by the actions… …   Wikipedia

• auxotrophic — [ôk΄sə träf′ik] adj. 〚< Gr auxein, to increase + TROPHIC〛 designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme auxotroph [ôk′səträf΄] n. *… …   Universalium

• reproductive behaviour — In animals, any activity directed toward perpetuation of a species. Sexual reproduction, the most common mode, occurs when a female s egg is fertilized by a male s sperm. The resulting unique combination of genes produces genetic variety that… …   Universalium

• heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… …   Universalium

• Evolution — This article is about evolution in biology. For other uses, see Evolution (disambiguation). For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to evolution. Part of a series on …   Wikipedia

• Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology       In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …   Universalium

• evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …   Universalium

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• protist — protistan /proh tis teuhn/, adj., n. protistic, adj. /proh tist/, n. any of various one celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and… …   Universalium