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Adult
Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity.
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Breast
The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of primates.
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CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.
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Gamete
A gamete (from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization (conception) in organisms that sexually reproduce.
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Gonadosomatic index
The gonadosomatic index, abbreviated as GSI, is the calculation of the gonad mass as a proportion of the total body mass.
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Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia is an endocrine system disorder in which a noncancerous increase in the size of male breast tissue occurs.
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Hermaphrodite
In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.
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Infertility
Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.
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Multicellular organism
Multicellular organisms are organisms that consist of more than one cell, in contrast to unicellular organisms.
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Neoteny
Neoteny, (also called juvenilization)Montagu, A. (1989).
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Organism
In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
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Reproduction
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents".
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Secondary sex characteristic
Secondary sex characteristics are features that appear during puberty in humans, and at sexual maturity in other animals.
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Sex change
Sex change is a process by which a person or animal changes sex – that is, by which female sexual characteristics are substituted for male ones, or vice versa.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Sexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction is a form of reproduction where two morphologically distinct types of specialized reproductive cells called gametes fuse together, involving a female's large ovum (or egg) and a male's smaller sperm.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
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University Press of America
University Press of America is an academic publisher based in the United States.
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