self-replication
- a word derived from self-replicating.
Example Sentences
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"We see emergence of primitive metabolism, but we don't see self-replication, so maybe self-replication appeared later in evolution."
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
These mobile blobs could also group scattered frog cells together to form new xenobots—another demonstration of self-replication.
From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023
But it stands out among the story’s other sentient entities in that it has extraordinary powers of self-reflection and self-replication.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2021
As an epidemiologist, he knew to look for three things before classing a disease as contagious; clustering, self-replication and epidemic waves.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2018
Inside is a labyrinthine and subtle architecture that maintains its own structure, transforms molecules, stores energy and prepares for self-replication.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
