Breeding
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Breeding is the reproduction, that is, producing of offspring, usually animals or plants:
- Breeding in the wild, the natural process of reproduction in the animal kingdom
- Animal husbandry, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits
- Plant breeding, through selected specimens such as trees
Breeding may also refer to:
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[edit] Science
- Breeding back, a breeding effort to re-assemble extinct breed genes
- Breeding pair, bonded animals who cooperate to produce offspring
- Breeding program, a planned breeding of animals or plants
- Breeding season, the period during each year when a species reproduces
- Captive breeding, raising plants or animals in zoos or other controlled conditions
- Cooperative breeding, the raising of the young using non-parental care givers
- Crop breeding in Nepal
- Crossbreeding, the process of breeding an animal with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations
- Preservation breeding, a selection practice to preserve bloodlines
- Selective breeding, an animal selection practice to encourage chosen qualities
- Smart breeding, a plant selection practice to encourage chosen qualities
- In physics and technology, breeding refers to the way in which certain materials can be treated in a breeder reactor to become fissile material.
[edit] People
- James Floyd Breeding, U.S. Congressman from Kansas
- Marv Breeding, 1960s U.S. Major League Baseball player
[edit] Media
- Breeding (EP), 2007 album by Dirty Little Rabbits
- Breeding Death, 2000 album by Bloodbath
- Breeding the Spawn, 1993 album by Suffocation
- Dust Breeding, 2001 Doctor Who television series audio play
[edit] Locations
- Breeding, Kentucky, a town in the United States
[edit] Pornography
- In gay pornography, breeding is a slang term for creampie (sexual act).
[edit] See also
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- Good breeding (disambiguation)
- Inbreeding, is breeding between close relatives
- Manners, the unenforced standards of human conduct
- Outbreeding depression, reduced fitness from breeding of unrelated individuals
- Purebred, cultivars of a species
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