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life cycle

DEFINITIONS OF: life cycle

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n a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage

Type of:
organic phenomenon
(biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals

n the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Type of:
development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
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