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In biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
, offspring is the product of reproduction, a new organism
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
 produced by one or more parent
Parent

A parent is a mother or father; one who sexual reproduction or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different roles of parents vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human culture....
s.

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 chick
Chick

Chick may refer to:...
s hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee
Brood (honeybee)

In entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or Egg , the larva and the pupa stages in the life of Holometabolism insects. The brood of Western honey bees develops within a Beehive ....
.

Human offspring (descendants) are referred to as children (without reference to age, thus one can refer to a parent's "minor
Minor (law)

In law, the term minor is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes adulthood and is legally granted rights afforded to adults in society....
 children" or "adult
Adult

The term adult has at least three distinct meanings. It can indicate a biologically grown or mature person. It may also mean a plant, animal, or person who has reached full growth or alternatively is capable of reproduction, or a person who has attained the legally fixed age of majority; as opposed to a minor....
 children"); male children are son
Son

A son is a male reproduction; a boy, man, or male animal in relation to either or both of his parents. The female equivalent is a daughter....
s and female children are daughter
Daughter

A daughter is a female reproduction; 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....
s.






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In biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
, offspring is the product of reproduction, a new organism
Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
 produced by one or more parent
Parent

A parent is a mother or father; one who sexual reproduction or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different roles of parents vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human culture....
s.

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 chick
Chick

Chick may refer to:...
s hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee
Brood (honeybee)

In entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or Egg , the larva and the pupa stages in the life of Holometabolism insects. The brood of Western honey bees develops within a Beehive ....
.

Human offspring (descendants) are referred to as children (without reference to age, thus one can refer to a parent's "minor
Minor (law)

In law, the term minor is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes adulthood and is legally granted rights afforded to adults in society....
 children" or "adult
Adult

The term adult has at least three distinct meanings. It can indicate a biologically grown or mature person. It may also mean a plant, animal, or person who has reached full growth or alternatively is capable of reproduction, or a person who has attained the legally fixed age of majority; as opposed to a minor....
 children"); male children are son
Son

A son is a male reproduction; a boy, man, or male animal in relation to either or both of his parents. The female equivalent is a daughter....
s and female children are daughter
Daughter

A daughter is a female reproduction; 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....
s. See kinship and descent.

The word "fetus" is derived
Fetus

A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before childbirth. The plural is fetuses, or sometimes feti....
 from the Latin word for "offspring." In humans, the fetal
Fetus

A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before childbirth. The plural is fetuses, or sometimes feti....
 stage begins eight weeks after conception, when all of the major organs have been formed.

See also

  • Bateman's principle
    Bateman's principle

    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....
  • Clutch size
  • Donor offspring
  • Infanticide (zoology)
    Infanticide (zoology)

    In animals, 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....
  • Litter
    Litter (animal)

    A litter is the offspring at one birth of animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents. The word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young....
  • Parent-offspring conflict
    Parent-offspring conflict

    Parent-offspring conflict is a term used to signify the evolutionary conflict arising from differences in optimal fitness of parents and their offspring....
  • Parental investment
    Parental investment

    In evolutionary biology, parental investment is any parental expenditure that benefits one offspring at a cost to parents' ability to invest in other components of fitness ....