Write a fact related to the given fact, based on the given topic word. Note that, your fact should have at least one word in common with the given fact. All facts in this task refer to scientific facts. Your related fact must form a chain with the given fact. Chains form when two facts connect together to produce the third fact. An example of a chain is: "pesticides cause pollution" (given fact) + "pollution can harm animals" (related fact) → "pesticides can harm animals" (connected chain). Avoid creating simple paraphrases of the given fact. While your generated fact should be related to the input fact, they must describe slightly different scientific phenomena. It's okay if your related fact includes some irrelevant information, provided that it has some overlap with the given fact and it contains some words corresponding to the provided topic.

Fact: Arthropods have a life cycle with sexual reproduction. 
Topic: with sexual reproduction share genes.
Sexual reproduction mixes the genes up more than is possible with asexual reproduction.

Fact: a measuring cup is used for measuring the volume of substances. 
Topic: volume amount of space.
Volume is the amount of space an object or substance takes up.

Fact: a tape measure is used to measure length. 
Topic: length inches.

All lengths shown are in inches.