reproduction vs procreation

reproduction and procreation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
reproduction	Yes	No	No	No
procreation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reproduction and procreation are synonyms defined as:

reproduction and procreation: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

Other synonyms of reproduction include breeding, facts of life.

reproduction (noun)	procreation (noun)
the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring	the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
the act of making copies
copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
the process of generating offspring