reproduction
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the act or process of reproducing, esp. the process by which animals give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual process and its subsequent growth and differentiation into a new individual.

Alternative forms for reproduction : reproduce, reproduces, reproducing, reproductive.