2) reproductive. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...1. Employed in reproduction: sexual. See REPRODUCTION. 2. Of or relating to reproduction: procreant, procreative. See REPRODUCTION....

3) reproduction. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the reproductive process vary tremendously, two fundamental types may be distinguished; asexual reproduction, in which a single organism separates into two or...

4) breeding. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...breeding, in agriculture and animal husbandry, propagation of plants and animals by sexual reproduction; usually based on selection of parents with desirable traits...

5) syngenesis. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Sexual reproduction. syngeˇnetic (-j-netik) -ADJECTIVE...

6) gamogenesis. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Sexual reproduction. gamoˇgeˇnetic (-j-netik) -ADJECTIVEgamoˇgeˇnetiˇcalˇly -ADVERB...

7) vegetative propagation. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...vegetative propagation, the ability of plants to reproduce without sexual reproduction, by producing new plants from existing vegetative structures. Some plants,...

8) recombination. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..."shuffling" of genes by which new combinations can be generated. In recombination through sexual reproduction, the offspring's complete set of genes differs from...

9) puberty. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction. Middle English puberte, from Old French, from Latin pberts,...

10) vegetal. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of plants. 2. Relating to growth rather than to sexual reproduction; vegetative. Middle English, from Medieval Latin vegetlis,...