Sentences with phrase «number of smaller eggs»

So females that lay a larger number of smaller eggs end up with more surviving offspring.

Not exact matches

All for the sake of what is now a very small number of relatively wealthy dairy, poultry and egg farmers.

Adjust the number of eggs if you're using x-large or small eggs in a recipe.

A small number of children are already born to mothers over 50 every year, by IVF using donated eggs.

However, this method raises the following problem: in every nuclear transfer, a small number of defective mitochondria are transferred into the healthy egg cell.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

The average number of eggs for genetically modified mice (knockout mice) obtained using previous methods of superovulation induction is about 20 but in reality the number is often much smaller, about 10 or less.

Some research suggests a small number of stem cells continue making new eggs throughout a woman's life, but we don't know much about these yet.

Current techniques can't avoid dragging a small number of the mother's mitochondria into the donor egg, totalling less than 2 % of the resulting embryo's total mitochondria.

Yet only a small number of egg cells are produced by the female body, so they are the limiting factor in many aspects of reproductive science.

Because the egg - donor mother also supplies to each embryo a small number of mitochondria — tiny energy factories within cells that have some of their own genetic material — this approach even affords lesbian couples an approximation of sexual reproduction.

The amount of eggs and coconut your diet recommends would probably drive cholesterol and small LDL numbers off the scale.

Obesity can also decrease the number of eggs released at ovulation, resulting in smaller litter sizes.

Located between Sturgeon Bay and Egg Harbor, the small community of Carlsville is home to a remarkable number of hallmark Door County products.

Whale sharks, which are the largest of the fish species, appear to congregate here in large numbers to feed on huge nutrient - rich patches of fish eggs from spawning Bonito (small Atlantic Tuna).

Although on a smaller scale than country farms, producing vegetables, meat, eggs, mushrooms and other food products in cities can yield significant returns and often requires less financial investment, making the activity viable to a larger number of people.

Rapid change due to physical forcing will usually favor production of smaller, low - priced, opportunistic species that discharge large numbers of eggs over long periods (High Confidence).