(genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division

Usage examples of replication.

It is through natural selection, the preferential survival and replication of organisms that are by accident better adapted to their environments, that the elegance and beauty of contemporary life forms have emerged.

The hero and heroine of the story, named Arg and Gogogoch respectively, tried to smash their machine at birth, but this resulted only in fissiparous replication of the monster.

It works by inserting its molecules into the DNA material of the malaria merozoites and preventing gene replication.

Over the millennia since teleportation and replication had become the norm humans had worked very hard on returning the world to a condition of wilderness, one that replicated as much as possible prehuman, much less preindustrial, conditions.

Data, escaping the planet, not through replication, but simply through one of the taps physically writing things down.

Holodeck matter owes its form and solidity to the pattern held within the holodeck replication and transport buffer and therefore is disassembled when the emitters are turned off or the holomatter is removed from the holodeck.

That initial success was replicated many times, and with the replication came the modifications and improvements of the quantum interphase mat-trans inducers, reaching the point where they were manufactured in modular form.

I discuss shortly, where direct replications have been attempted - and failed.

The replication fork was busily zipping itself up to the end of the moleculea repeat structure gone wild.

In time, the seas became full of these molecular collectives, forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, mutating, replicating… Elaborate systems arose, molecular collectives exhibiting behavior, moving to where the replication building blocks were more abundant, avoiding molecular collectives that incorporated their neighbors.

Mutations might occur during replication if the enzyme DNA polymerase makes a mistake.

She had seen that kind of instant replication once before, when she had looked through the electroscope in the medi-chamber.

Their replication rate is slow (it takes months to build a bubble), but in only a couple of decades, exponential growth will have paved the stratosphere with human-friendly terrain.

But these malfunctions are interfering with the replication of the antidote.

A conservative estimate is that, in the absence of natural selection, DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy 1 per cent of the characters.