The average number of offspring produced by an individual organism during its lifetime.
Imagine you're baking cookies for a party. Your oven's capacity and how fast you can make each batch would be your 'reproductive rate'. If you can bake 12 cookies every 15 minutes, then your reproductive rate is high!
Fecundity: The potential reproductive capacity of an organism or population measured by the quantity of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
Life History Strategy: An organism's allocation of its time and resources to growth, reproduction, and survival.
Generation Time: Average interval between the birth of an individual and the birth of its offspring.
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