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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
female pregnancy +   
The set of physiological processes that allow an embryo or foetus to develop within the body of a female animal. It covers the time from fertilization of a female ovum by a male spermatozoon until birth.
insemination +   
mating  
parturition +   
penetration of zona pellucida  
plantlet formation on parent plant 
pollination +  
regulation of brood size  
sperm competition +   

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: gestation
Related Synonyms: carrying of young
Xrefs: Wikipedia:Gestation
Only In Taxon: NCBITaxon:40674 ! Mammalia
Definition Sources: ISBN:0192800825

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