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Viability
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Viability 

(1) The ability of an individual (or a population) to live and produce offspring. The viability of a population is determined by fertility, duration of the reproductive period, and the number of individuals that attain sexual maturity.

(2) The ability of an individual to survive until a specific moment of his life cycle—that is, until the beginning of the reproductive period. A measure of the viability of a mutant is the relative frequency of survival to that period in mutants as compared with nonmutated individuals.



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In some cases, abortions have been performed on inviable fetuses very early on, but women whose pregnancies are more advanced are forced to carry to term.
China argues publicly that lifting the ban would flood the market with legal products from farm-raised tigers and drive prices down, and thereby make poaching and sales of wild tigers economically inviable, but behind closed doors China appears to be bowing to pressure from tiger farmers and provincial officials who stand to profit from potentially millions in sales not only from harvesting the live tigers but also from existing "stocks"--hundreds of frozen carcasses the farms hold in storage.
 
 
 
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