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- adjective biology
reproducing only once in alifetime
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Examples
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Organisms with r-selected traits range from bacteria and diatoms, through insects and weeds, to various semelparous cephalopods and mammals, especially small rodents.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Due to the semelparous reproduction typical of cephalopods, individual cuttlefish have one breeding season then die
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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Also most of them are semelparous that they lay eggs a lot at one time and die, but nautiloidea is exception.
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