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life cycle
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life cycle
n.
1. The characteristic course of developmental changes through which an organism passes from its inception as a fertilized zygote to its mature state, during which another zygote may be produced.
2. A progression through a series of differing stages of development.

life cycle,
1 the interval of time from conception to natural death.
2 the series of stages from any stage of one generation to the same stage of the next generation.


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