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Oviposition is the process of laying eggs
Egg (biology)

In most birds and reptiles, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. T






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Oviposition is the process of laying eggs
Egg (biology)

In most birds and reptiles, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. To enable incubation the egg is usually kept within a favourable temperature range as it nourishes and protects the growing embryo....
 by oviparous
Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that lay Egg , with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the Biological reproduction of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects and arachnids....
 animals.

Some arthropod
Arthropod

Arthropods are animals belonging to the Scientific classification Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others....
s, for example, lay their eggs with an organ called the ovipositor
Ovipositor

The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for oviposition, i.e. the laying of Egg . It consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages formed to transmit the egg, to prepare a place for it, and to place it properly....
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Fish
Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
es (excluding certain species of shark
Shark

Sharks are a type of fish with a full Cartilage skeleton and a highly Streamlines, streaklines and pathlinesd body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits....
s), amphibians, reptile
Reptile

Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scale as opposed to hair or feathers....
s, bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s and monetremata
Monotreme

Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like Marsupialias and Placentalia .They are conventionally treated as comprising a single order Monotremata, though a recent classification proposes to divide them into the orders Platypoda and Tachyglossa ....
 also lay eggs.

A major issue for human health is the prevention of oviposition by malaria
Malaria

Malaria is a Vector -borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is widespread in Tropics and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa....
-bearing anopheles
Anopheles

Anopheles is a genus of mosquito . There are approximately 460 recognised species: while over 100 can transmit human malaria, only 30-40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus Plasmodium that cause malaria which affects humans in endemic areas....
 mosquito
Mosquito

Mosquitoes are common flying insects in the family Culicidae that are found around the world. There are about 3,500 species. They have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and six long legs....
s. Suggested methods include using floating plants to cover the surface of bodies of stagnant water
Water stagnation

Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. Stagnant water can be a major environmental hazard....
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