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Can the mothers lay their eggs on medicinal milkweed that will make their future offspring less sick?
But what these experiments tell us is that these monarchs, these mothers, can lay their eggs on medicinal milkweed that will make their future offspring less sick.
We are the offspring of those who saw more accurately, and so we can be confident that, in the normal case, our perceptions are accurate.
Now this, this is a baby tapir, the cutest animal offspring in the animal kingdom.
At every stage, the incorrect instructions are passed along to the cells' offspring.
Almost 60 years before Darwin published his book, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that creatures evolve by developing certain traits over their lifetimes and then passing those on to their offspring.
Genes that result in a greater variety of immunities may give offspring a major survival advantage.
This skipping of an entire generation left lingering claims to the throne among their various offspring, particularly the Lancasters, descended from Edward's third son, and the Yorks, descended from his fourth son.
For the mother, that means she should try to provide equally for all her offspring.
When an animal leaves more offspring, its genes will spread.
It's thought that if female crane flies enjoy this unusual serenade, they'll allow the male to father their offspring.
A female's interests are best served if she fertilizes her eggs with the sperm of the best fathers and creates genetic variability amongst her offspring.
All you have to do is release a gene drive that makes the fish produce only male offspring.
And so, instead of being obsessed with grades and scores when our precious offspring come home from school, or we come home from work, we need to close our technology, put away our phones, and look them in the eye and let them see the joy that fills our faces when we see our child for the first time in a few hours.
When she asks you of this year, your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph, from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman, she will wonder and ask voraciously, though she cannot fathom your sacrifice, she will hold your estimation of it holy, curiously probing, "Where were you?
And if the very few that survive pass onto their offspring whatever it was that helped them survive, then those offspring must be better adapted to the circumstances in which all this happened than their parents were.
And we thought: Is it possible that the mother is somehow reprogramming the gene of her offspring through her behavior?
Is there a signature of the mother in the DNA of the offspring?
So they benefited from vitamin D, developed strong bones, and survived well enough to produce healthy offspring.
She bites to get a blood meal to feed her offspring.
On this account, the display of the peacock's tail is about sexual enticement, and this enticement means it's more likely the peacock will mate and have offspring.
Anthropologist Joan Silk's work shows that female baboons who have a core of female friends show lower levels of stress via their cortisol levels, they live longer and they have more surviving offspring.
The rabbits are hermaphroditic, and each rabbit in a given cell will breed once with every rabbit in the horizontally adjacent cells, producing exactly one offspring each time.
Able to make more seeds and offspring with the help of its dedicated pollinators, the orchid successfully reproduces in isolation, and becomes a new species.
You see, Sophie is a testimony to all those creatures that have managed to survive since the beginning of time; all those animals that have managed to have offspring generation after generation, until this day.
And with this reclassification, we realized that in a lot of those field observations where we saw a male and female sharing a nest, comaintaining a territory, even provisioning offspring together, often included a few baby birds that did not belong to the male partner.
This was typically offered as a last-ditch attempt to cure a sick parent, and wasn't fatal to their offspring— it usually involved flesh from the thigh or, less often, a finger.
Workers from nests up to several meters away begin to steal offspring from our queen.
They have sort of mutant offspring.
In the wild, the parent Bonobo is known to groom its offspring.
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