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A frog in frogspawn.
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In biology, offspring are the product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents. Look up offspring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x1152, 387 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Egg (biology) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x1152, 387 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Egg (biology) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Distribution of frogs (in black) Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families The frogness babe is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning tail-less from Greek an-, without + oura, tail), formerly referred to as Salientia (Latin saltare, to jump). ... For the song by Girls Aloud see Biology (song) Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: Βιολογία - βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, speech lit. ... For other uses, see Reproduction (disambiguation) Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced. ... Domains and Kingdoms Nanobes Acytota Cytota Bacteria Neomura Archaea Eukaryota Bikonta Apusozoa Rhizaria Excavata Archaeplastida Rhodophyta Glaucophyta Plantae Heterokontophyta Haptophyta Cryptophyta Alveolata Unikonta Amoebozoa Opisthokonta Choanozoa Fungi Animalia An ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Life on Earth redirects here. ... A parent is a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian // Mother This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee. Look up chick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Recently hatched honeybee larvae are feeding on royal jelly for three days. ...


Human offspring (descendants) are referred to as children (without reference to age, thus one can refer to a parent's "minor children" or "adult children"); male children are sons and female children are daughters. See kinship and descent. Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... In law, the term minor (also infant or infancy) is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes adulthood and is legally granted rights afforded to adults in society. ... This article is about the human developmental stage. ... For other uses, see Son (disambiguation). ... An expecting couple with their daughter A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. ... Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. ...


The word "fetus" is derived from the Latin word for "offspring." In humans, the fetal stage begins eight weeks after conception, when all of the major organs have been formed. For other uses, see Fetus (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fetus (disambiguation). ...


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In biology, Batemans principle is the theory that the sex which invests the most in producing offspring becomes a limited resource over which the other sex will compete. ... A donor offspring, or donor conceived person, is conceived via the donation of sperm or ova, or both, either from two separate donors or from a couple. ... A lioness may have her cubs destroyed if the prides males are overthrown. ... A litter of pigs A litter is a group of newly born, young animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents. ... Robert Trivers theory of parent-offspring conflict (1974) predicts that because the genetic interests of parents and offspring are not identical, offspring will be selected to manipulate their parents in order to ensure higher investment, and that, conversely, parents will be selected to manipulate their offspring. ... Robert Trivers theory of parental investment predicts that the sex making the largest investment in lactation, nurturing and protecting offspring will be more discriminating in mating and that the sex that invests less in offspring will compete for access to the higher investing sex. ...

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When The Offspring first emerged with their 1994 release Smash, they were widely criticized as punk-wannabe's who had no place in either the punk or pop worlds.
Thanks to bands such as The Offspring, Green Day and Blink 182, the music world saw the rise of a genre of music that had progressed with little coverage since the late '70s.
The Offspring have most recently been in the public eye with their outspoken support of the MP3 file-sharing application Napster and the release of their sixth album, Conspiracy Of One in late 2000.
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