The goal of each living thing is to pass on its own genetic information. The limited resources of the world have created a complex, biological community under intense selective pressure. In order to ensure survival of oneself and one's genes, an...

No one is presumed to have preferred another’s offspring to his own....

In biology, offspring are 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...

Rearranged, the letters of a parent word may give rise to two perfectly legitimate offspring. Some parent words produce pairs of offspring which are related in meaning to each other and also, in some cases, to the parent word. MUSLINETTE hides the synonyms...

"PUNK'S NOT DEAD," the kid's leather jacket proclaimed at a recent show. I don't know, the kid looked pretty dead. Punk's dead. Punk's not dead. Who cares? The guys in The Offspring don't waste too much time deliberating on the subject. Their...

A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.The glowing piglets' birth proves transgenic...

A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.The glowing piglets' birth proves transgenic...