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n. - The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.

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  • The team uses a screen called the mating-based protein complementation assay, or split ubiquitin system.
  • Anyway -- "he finished more lightly," when you come right down to 'mating', or
  • Since no one was born 'mating' with another, this means that the deviant homosexual behaviors HAVE TO BE LEARNED (and they shouldn't be)!
  • 'mating', but other than that I think it was fairly
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