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life cycle  

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  • All living organisms have a life cycle beginning with the initiation of life and continuing until death. Scientists generally consider a life cycle to encompass the changes that an organism experiences from the beginning of a specific developmental stage until inception of the initial developmental stage in the next generation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture; Life Cycle]

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