👉 Perioecic, in biology and ecology, refers to a type of life cycle in which an organism reproduces only once. This means that the offspring are produced only once during its lifetime, without any further reproduction or division into new individuals. In other words, it's like a single generation (or "generation" for short) where one gets one copy of the same species. For example, if you have a tree, and one of its branches is cut off, that branch becomes just
