Viruses have genes, can reproduce and are subject to the evolutionary pressures imposed by natural selection.
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There is no way that the shrunken generation of the 1990s can reproduce enough to stabilize the population.
Rotifers are unusual in that they often reproduce by parthenogenesis (some species, indeed, can reproduce only in this way).
An individual that has starved to death is not one that can reproduce.
There is something powerful about the chemistry that happens in the moment of contact that no other medium can reproduce.
Such models can reproduce all the characteristics of a standard big bang universe in a natural way, without the extra premise of inflation and its special initial conditions.
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But Renard, 42, believes the oil-producing country can reproduce the form that saw them rub shoulders with the world's elite at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
In addition, we have invested in realistic, full-body adult, wireless patient simulators that can reproduce complex diseases that students may not have an opportunity to experience in rural hospitals.
But if ten million monkeys sitting at typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespeare, it stands to reason that three million bored iPhone owners would push enough buttons to find a backdoor this simple.
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Dr Swenson lives with the Lakashi tribe a joyful people whose women can reproduce well into old age thanks to a magical substance they ingest by ritually scraping their teeth down the trunks of a tree.
And so, while one might presume that Watson can generate a correct answer for optimal management for the next systemic therapy for someone with progressing advanced lung cancer, at best Watson can reproduce the thought processes of its very limited number of mentors.
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But as the market for high-end audio products grows, more consumers enter the market unaware of why recording artists, including the producers and sound engineers, make the decisions they make, and how consumer technologies can reproduce the sound just as they created it.
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"We know that animals in 'germ-free' conditions can reproduce, they have a longer lifespan, and they seem to live perfectly OK, provided you don't expose them to stress or damage, " said Sven Pettersson, the Karolinska Institute microbiologist who, along with neuroscientist Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, led the research.
Whipworm from pigs appeared to be a good candidate because they don't naturally infect humans and can't reproduce in them.
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For years, scientists have dreamt of making robots that can self-reproduce.
This is enough to produce a completely different sequence of genetic chunks - and results in the cell beginning to produce proteins that the virus can use to reproduce itself.
Computers can nearly recreate a letterpress look by putting filters over type, but they can't reproduce the irregular look that comes from ink buildup on the type and the varying pressures applied during the printing process.
The bottled insulin is a growth medium that can allow the bacteria to reproduce.
The inshore fleet says those offshore fellows steal the mother shrimps before they can reach the bays and reproduce.
They might even, if the mechanism can truly be understood, be able to reproduce, as well.
The computer program can also simulate how coronary arteries develop and reproduce exactly what happens when the heart pumps.
The carp reproduce prolifically, and the biggest can reach 100 pounds.
Even if a plausible-sounding story can be told about how some piece of behavior would have helped early hunter-gatherers survive and reproduce, it may well have become established earlier and for different reasons.
The Original will reproduce music wirelessly from any device with Bluetooth or directly through the 3.5 mm connection so it can be used as a premium external speaker system for iPad, Kindle, a laptop computer, electric guitar and more.
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