sexual reproduction Meaning of "sexual reproduction"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete

Usage(s):

  1. Human sexual reproduction, as couples even before Sarah and Abraham have known, can be a heartbreakingly unreliable process.
  2. One is that males are necessary to combat disease: without sexual reproduction, a clonal species is vulnerable to increasing parasitic attack.
  3. These changes stem from errors that occur during sexual reproduction, as DNA is copied and recombined.
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