the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.

The creation of new organisms by either vegetative reproduction (plants giving rise to new plants by splitting, shoots, runners, cuttings etc), asexual reproduction (budding in bacteria and sponges for example) or sexual reproduction. The first two methods result in organisms genetically similar (if not identical) to their parent; sexual reproduction involves shuffling genes around and fusing a male and female gamete to maximise genetic variation in the offspring. reproduction is essentially the creation of new individuals of the same species, and includes behaviours, physical structures, instincts, hormones - it is one of the main driving forces of life and living organisms.

The manufacture of offspring as part of an organism's life cycle. This is not the same as dispersal. Reproduction may be sexual, involving the fusion of gametes, or asexual.

The process of generating offspring by one or more parents

The production of new individuals, usually by sexual means, through the production of a zygote from which the new individual grows; though organisms that fall apart as they grow are often misleadingly said to undergo asexual reproduction.

Production of offspring by one or more parents.

the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

The making of offspring.

The process of duplicating, or the production of offspring.

The production of offspring. Reproduction need not be sexual. Yeast can reproduce by budding. See the entire definition of Reproduction

The total process by which organisms produce offspring. (Stedman, 25th ed)

The production of an organism, cell or organelle like itself (self propagation). 1. Sexual reproduction: the regular alternation (in the life-cycle of haplontic, diplontic and diplohaplontic organisms) of meiosis and fertilization (karyogamy) which provides for the production of offspring. The main biological significance of sexual reproduction lies in the fact that it achieves genetic recombination. 2. Asexual or agamic reproduction: the development of a new individual from either a single cell (agamospermy) or from a group of cells (vegetative reproduction) in the absence of any sexual process. See also apomixis.

The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.

Terms Commonly used in Management Plans] [ Forest Stewardship] The generation of offspring by trees.

(reproductive) – Having to do with creating offspring or children, including organs (e.g. penis) and function (e.g. the ability to become pregnant).

The process by which organisms give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual process, and its subsequent growth and differentiation into a new individual.

the process of producing offspring.