offspring

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Noun

offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)

  1. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s)
  2. All a person's descendants, including further generations
  3. An animal or plant's progeny, known as young
  4. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts
    Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring
  5. (computing) A process launched by another process

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In biology, offspring is 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. Offspring can occur after mating (sexual Intercourse).

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Fri Sep 3 06:41:24 2010

How do you figure out the possible offspring for a male with a y-linked genetic disorder?
Q. A male contains a Y-linked genetic disorder and mates with a healthy female. What percentage of the female offspring would contain the disorder? What percentage of the male offspring would contain the disorder?
Asked by Amanda - Mon Mar 29 17:10:24 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Males are XY and females are XX so the female offspring have no Y and so 0% disorder. Male offspring (XY) will all have a Y from their father and so =100% disorder.
Answered by Peter S - Tue Mar 30 11:44:22 2010

What colors of offspring are expected from the following crosses? The expected ratios of offspring phenotypes?
Q. When a red-flowered snapdragon is crossed with a white-flowered snapdragon, the offspring have pink flowers. Therefore, the alleles for red and white flowers in snapdragons show incomplete dominance.
Asked by sharai kaaay - Sun Nov 29 20:15:19 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Since there is incomplete dominance displayed, you can tell that the red and white flowers are homozygous for their respective colors. The cross of red and white flowered snapdragons would be as follows: ...W...W... R...RW RW R...Rw rw r represents the allele for red color, W represents the allele for white color. You know that each parent flower is homozygous because RW (heterozygous) would yield a pink flower. There is no completely dominant allele. Thus, the only way to have a red flower would be RR and white flowers must have the genotype WW. This being said, the above cross will be the result of a red and a white parent mix. All offspring will have a RW genotype, which translates into a pink flower (phenotype).
Answered by PrivateChurch - Sun Nov 29 20:26:36 2009

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the offspring?
Q. Arecessive gene causes albinism, an inability to produce melanin, resulting in a deer with a white coat. If an albino deer mates with a purebred brown deer, all of the offspring will be brown. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the offspring? 1. The offspring are all carriers of the recessive gene 2. none of the offspring carry the recessive gene 3. some of the offspring are carriers and some are not 4. the offspring will all be albino.
Asked by Gitae L - Sun May 18 20:09:16 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The answer is #1... the offspring are all carriers of the recessive allele of the gene. Explanation... First ascribe a symbol to the alleles for the coat color trait. Let's use B and b. Recessive alleles are symbolized by the lower-cased letter. Recessive traits require that 2 copies of the recessive allele be present. So the albino geneotype is bb. The purebread brown deer genotype is BB. We know this because all of the offspring of albino x purebred brown are brown. bb (albino) x BB (brown) = Bb heterozygous but brown because there is only 1 copy of the recessive b allele. If the purebred brown deer were Bb, then a bb x Bb cross would have yielded 50% albino offspring. SInce this did not occur and we know the brown purebred… [cont.]
Answered by science girl - Sun May 18 20:23:50 2008

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