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    pressures led to the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction? (more unsolved problems in biology) Sexual reproduction is an adaptive feature...
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    Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg...
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  • Plant reproduction is the production of new offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces...
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    copy of itself. The evolution of sexual reproduction is a major puzzle for biologists. The two-fold cost of sexual reproduction is that only 50% of organisms...
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    Human reproduction is sexual reproduction that results in human fertilization to produce a human offspring. It typically involves sexual intercourse between...
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    Isogamy (redirect from Sexual conjugation)
    the first stage in the evolution of sexual reproduction. Isogamous reproduction evolved independently in several lineages of plants and animals to anisogamous...
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    trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. During sexual reproduction, a male and a female gamete fuse...
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    Sachs Benjamin D. : The physiology of male sexual behavior. In Knobil Ernest, Neill Jimmy D. The physiology of reproduction, Raven Press, 2nd edition, 1994...
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  • is the masking of deleterious recessive alleles in hybrid individuals. In general, the two fundamental aspects of sexual reproduction in eukaryotes are...
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    characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most dioecious species, which consist of most animals and some plants. Differences...
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    the most common form of asexual reproduction is parthenogenesis, which is typically used as an alternative to sexual reproduction in times when reproductive...
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  • Darwin's warm little pond. The evolution of sexual reproduction may be a primordial and fundamental characteristic of eukaryotes, including single cell...
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    the fry leave the nest and the free-swimming stage begins. Evolution of sexual reproduction Guimaraes-Cruz, Rodrigo J., Rodrigo J.; Santos, José E. dos;...
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    has been used to explain the significance of sexual reproduction as a means to enable continual evolution and adaptation in response to coevolution with...
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    the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both. This is also known as vaginal intercourse or vaginal sex. Sexual penetration has been known...
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    Protist (redirect from Kingdom of misfits)
    evidence of radiolarians. Evolution of sexual reproduction Marine protists Protist locomotion Protistology According to some classifications, all of Archaeplastida...
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    doi:10.3390/genes11080849. PMC 7466014. PMID 32722348. Bull, James J.; Evolution of sex determining mechanisms; p. 17 ISBN 0805304002 Bachtrog, Doris; Mank...
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    Penile-vaginal intercourse (category Sexual acts)
    Penile-vaginal intercourse or vaginal intercourse is a form of penetrative sexual intercourse in human sexuality, in which an erect penis is inserted...
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    Gamete (section Evolution)
    The Evolution and Biology of Sex, retrieved 20 October 2020 Fusco, Giuseppe; Minelli, Alessandro (10 October 2019). The Biology of Reproduction. Cambridge...
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    sexuality portal Body odor and subconscious human sexual attraction Erogenous zone Evolution of sexual reproduction Human height Human physical appearance Human...
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    attempt an understanding of how the genetics of sexual differentiation can influence biological processes like reproduction, ageing and disease. In humans...
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  • (which includes animals and plants). However the origin and evolution of sexual reproduction remain a puzzle for biologists, though it did evolve from a...
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    Internal fertilization (category Reproduction in animals)
    Internal fertilization is the union of an egg and sperm cell during sexual reproduction inside the female body. Internal fertilization, unlike its counterpart...
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    Coevolution (redirect from Co-evolution)
    role in driving major evolutionary transitions such as the evolution of sexual reproduction or shifts in ploidy. More recently, it has also been demonstrated...
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    initial mammalian development. Males and females of a species that reproduce sexually have different forms of gametogenesis: spermatogenesis (male): Immature...
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    Simultaneous hermaphroditism (category Sexual reproduction)
    ISBN 978-0-19-506394-3. Leonard J, Cordoba-Aguilar A (2010-07-19). The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 20....
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    Lordosis behavior (category Sexual intercourse)
    of the longissimus and transverso-spinalis muscles causes the ventral arching of the vertebral column. Sexual behaviour is optimized for reproduction...
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    smaller surface area to volume ratio. The evolution of sexual reproduction may be a primordial characteristic of eukaryotes. Based on a phylogenetic analysis...
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    the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction. Among all...
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    herself. In normal sexual reproduction, the father has two sets of chromosomes, and crossing over takes place between the chromatids of each pair during...
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