Gerund-like use referring to the act or property of self-replication; generally uncountable.
Self-replicating is essential for life.
Самовоспроизводство является необходимым для жизни.
self-replicatinggerund / present participle Used attributively/predicatively to describe entities capable of reproducing themselves.
The virus has a self-replicating genome.
У вируса самовоспроизводящийся геном.