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Aphids can be born pregnant because they skip a lot of the usual steps of reproduction. Instead of laying eggs or needing to mate, female aphids grow their babies internally and give birth to live young, and those newborn daughters already have developing embryos inside them. It’s like a biological assembly line. The mother carries daughters, and those daughters are already carrying the next generation. This system allows aphid populations to explode quickly. If you've ever wondered how they multiply so quickly, being born pregnant is how.
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