In biology, offspring are the product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Reproduction is the Biological process by which new individual Organisms are produced A parent is a Father or Mother; one who sires or gives

Collective offspring may be known as a brood or progeny in a more general way. This can refer to a set of simultaneous offspring, such as the chicks hatched from one clutch of eggs, or to all the offspring, as with the honeybee. In Entomology, the term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the Larva and the Pupa stages in the life of holometabolous

Human offspring (descendants) are referred to as children (without reference to age, thus one can refer to a parent's "minor children" or "adult children"); male children are sons and female children are daughters. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin through either biological cultural or historical descent CHILD syndrome (or congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects) is a genetic disorder In law the term minor (also infant or infancy) is used to refer to a person who is under the age in which one legally assumes Adulthood and is legally For the 2008 British film by Noel Clarke see Adulthood (film. SON DNA binding protein, also known as SON, is a human Gene. A daughter is a Female offspring; a Girl, Woman, or female animal in relation to her Parents The male equivalent is a Son See kinship and descent. Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin through either biological cultural or historical descent

The word "fetus" is derived from the Latin word for "offspring. A fetus (or foetus or fœtus) is a developing Mammal or other Viviparous Vertebrate, after the Embryonic stage and " In humans, the fetal stage begins eight weeks after conception, when all of the major organs have been formed. A fetus (or foetus or fœtus) is a developing Mammal or other Viviparous Vertebrate, after the Embryonic stage and

See also

• Bateman's principle
• Clutch size
• Donor offspring
• Infanticide (zoology)
• Litter
• Parent-offspring conflict
• Parental investment

In Biology, Bateman's principle is the theory that females almost always invest more Energy into producing Offspring than males and therefore in most species A clutch of eggs refers to all the eggs produced by one Bird or Reptile at a single time particularly A donor offspring, or donor conceived person, is conceived via the donation of Sperm ( Sperm donation) or Ova ( Egg donation) or both In Animals infanticide involves the Killing of young Offspring by a mature animal of its own Species, and is studied in Zoology For other meanings of litter see Litter (disambiguation. A litter is the offspring at one birth of Animals from the same mother and usually Parent-offspring conflict is a term used to signify the Evolutionary conflict arising from differences in optimal fitness of Parents and their Offspring In Evolutionary biology, parental investment (PI is any Parental expenditure (time energy etc

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