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Life cycle   /laɪf sˈaɪkəl/   Listen
Life cycle

noun
1.
A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage.
2.
The course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced.





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"Life cycle" Quotes from Famous Books



... growth of bacteria on the filter, thus reducing the effect of the Schmutzdecke. Still another view of the greater danger from bacterial contamination in winter is the theory that cold prolongs the life of the bacteria by merely preventing them from living through their life cycle and reaching natural old age and death as rapidly as in ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 • E. D. Hardy
... both take biology, and the first weekend assignment we get, right after Rosh Hashanah, is to find and identify an animal native to New York City and look up its family and species and life cycle. ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville


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