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In biology, offspring are the product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents.

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.

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.

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.

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Offspring is the product of biological reproduction.

Offspring may refer to:

In music:
  • The Offspring, an American rock band
  • The Offspring (album), an album by The Offspring
In television:
  • "Offspring" (

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Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, "life"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge"), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the scientific study of life.
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    • parent is a father or mother; one who sires or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different role of parents varies throughout the tree of life, and is especially complex in human culture.
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    Chick may refer to one of these topics:
    • A chicken (Gallus gallus animal)
    • A young bird (originally a dialectal form of chicken)
    • Slang, denoting a young (Spanish Chica = girl) and/or attractive woman (may be considered derogatory).

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    brood. The brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made, removable frame hives, such as Langstroth hives, each frame which is mainly brood is called a brood frame. Brood frames usually have some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners of the frame.
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    Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracking kinship and descent. Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts which are common among many different cultures.
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    worldwide view of the subject.
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    In many countries such as India, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand a minor is presently defined as a person under the age of 18.
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    neutrality is disputed.
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    Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page. The term adult has three distinct meanings:
    • Grown man or woman; mature person.

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    child (plural: children) is primarily a boy or girl who has not reached puberty.[1][2] However, some youth reach puberty earlier or later than expected.
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    A son is a male offspring; a boy, man, or male animal in relation to either or both of his parents. The female equivalent is a daughter.

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    daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. The male equivalent is a son. Analogously the name is used on several areas to show relations between groups or elements.

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    A daughter is the female offspring of the animal.
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    Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracking kinship and descent. Anthropologists break these down into simple concepts which are common among many different cultures.
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    fetus (or foetus, or fœtus) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is fetuses (foetuses, fœtuses) or, very rarely, foeti.
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    In biology, Bateman's principle is the theory that females almost always invest more energy into producing offspring than males, and therefore in most species females are a limiting resource over which the other sex will compete.
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    A clutch of eggs refers to all the eggs produced by one bird or reptile at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.

    Clutch size

    Clutch size will differ greatly between species, sometimes even within the same genus.
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    A donor offspring, or donor conceived person, is conceived via the donation of sperm (sperm donation) or ova (egg donation), or both, either from two separate donors or from a couple. In the case of embryo donation, the conceiving parents are a couple.
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    infanticide involves the killing of young offspring by a mature animal of its own species, and is studied in zoology, specifically in the field of ethology. Ovicide is the analogous destruction of eggs.
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    Parent-offspring conflict is a term used to signify the evolutionary conflict arising from differences in optimal fitness of parents and their offspring. While parents tend to maximize the number of offspring, the offspring can increase their fitness by getting a greater share of
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    In evolutionary biology, parental investment (PI) is any parental expenditure (time, energy etc.) that benefits one offspring at a cost to parents' ability to invest in other components of fitness (Clutton-Brock 1991: 9; Trivers 1972).
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