Identifying Environmental Factors Harmful to Reproduction
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Identifying environmental factors harmful to reproduction.
Reproduction is essential for the continuation of the species and for life itself. In biological terms, living and reproducing are essentially one and the same. There is, therefore, no sharp division between identifying factors harmful to reproduction and identifying factors harmful to life or vice versa. Detection of harmful factors requires balanced use of a variety of methodologies from data...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3431371