Lack, however, suggested that clutch size—the number of eggs a bird lays per breeding cycle—is far below the potential limit of egg production.

然而，缺乏情况表明卵的大小——每一个繁殖周期下的蛋的数量——远低于产蛋的潜在限制。

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Techniques of apple genetic transformation can improve apple trees and shorten the breeding cycle by molecular methods.

苹果的遗传转化技术通过分子手段改良苹果，有助于缩短其育种周期。

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The mammal is distinguished by an unusual breeding cycle that occurs every 18 months and has pups suckle for a year and a half.

这种哺乳动物的显著特点是不同寻常的繁殖周期，每18个月一次，并且要给幼儿海狮哺乳一年半。

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Their breeding cycle includes the construction of white "tents" where the caterpillars spend the winter.

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Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.

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The problem is so rampant in central Kenya, where breeders have made in-roads into breeding rhinos in captivity on private reserves, that during the monthly full moon cycle, when poachers are not reliant on torches or headlamps for light, the rhinos need to be protected 24 hours a day.

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