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Breeding is
sexual reproduction Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete ( haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote tha ...
that produces offspring, usually animals or plants. It can only occur between a male and a female animal or plant. Breeding may refer to: *
Animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, animal fiber, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising ...
, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits *
Breeding in the wild Breeding in the wild is the natural process of animal reproduction occurring in the natural habitat of a given species. This terminology is distinct from animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals ...
, the natural process of reproduction in the animal kingdom *
Sexual reproduction of plants Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction. Among all living organisms, flowers, which are the reproductive st ...
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Plant breeding Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It is used to improve the quality of plant products for use by humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce crop varie ...
, through specimens selected by humans for desirable traits


Science

* Breeding refers to nuclear transmutations that produce fuel for further reactions, in a
breeder reactor A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available isotopes of uranium and thorium, such as uranium-238 and thorium-232, as opposed to the ...
to become fissile material or in a fusion reactor to produce tritium, see


Biology

* Breeding (sex act) *
Breeding back Breeding back is a form of artificial selection by the deliberate selective breeding of domestication, domestic (but not exclusively) animals, in an attempt to achieve an animal breed with a phenotype that resembles a wild type ancestor, usually ...
, a breeding effort to re-assemble extinct breed genes *
Breeding pair Breeding pair is a pair of animals which cooperate over time to produce offspring with some form of a bond between the individuals. For example, many birds mate for a breeding season or sometimes for life. They may share some or all of the task ...
, bonded animals who cooperate to produce offspring *
Breeding program A breeding program is the planned breeding of a group of animals or plants, usually involving at least several individuals and extending over several generations. There are a couple of breeding methods, such as artificial (which is man made) a ...
, a planned breeding of animals or plants *
Breeding season Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year. These times of year allow for the optimization of survival of young due to factors such as ambient temperature, food and water availability, and ch ...
, the period during each year when a species reproduces *
Captive breeding Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves, zoos, Botanical garden, botanic gardens, and other Conservation biology, conservation facilitie ...
, raising plants or animals in zoos or other controlled conditions *
Cooperative breeding Cooperative breeding is a social system characterized by alloparental care: offspring receive care not only from their parents, but also from additional group members, often called helpers. Cooperative breeding encompasses a wide variety of group s ...
, the raising of the young using non-parental care givers *
Crossbreed A crossbreed is an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations. A domestic animal of unknown ancestry, where the breed status of only one parent or grandparent is known, may also be called a crossbreed though ...
ing, the process of breeding an animal with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations *
Mating In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction. ''Fertilization'' is the fusion of two gametes. '' Copulation'' is the union of the sex organs of two sexually repr ...
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Preservation breeding Preservation may refer to: Heritage and conservation * Preservation (library and archival science), activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record while making as few changes as possible * ''Preservation'' (magazine), published by the Nat ...
, a selection practice to preserve bloodlines *
Selective breeding Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant m ...
, an animal selection practice to encourage chosen qualities *
Smart breeding Marker assisted selection or marker aided selection (MAS) is an indirect selection process where a trait of interest is selected based on a marker ( morphological, biochemical or DNA/RNA variation) linked to a trait of interest (e.g. productivit ...
, a plant selection practice to encourage chosen qualities


People

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James Floyd Breeding James Floyd Breeding (September 28, 1901 – October 17, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Early life Born near Robinson, Kansas, Breeding was educated in grade schools, Moonlight, Kansas, and Berryton High School in Shawnee Cou ...
(1901–1977), U.S. Congressman from Kansas *
Marv Breeding Marv Eugene Breeding (March 8, 1934 – December 31, 2006) was an American professional baseball second baseman who played four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators and Los Angeles Dodgers between ...
(1934–2006), 1960s U.S. Major League Baseball player


Media

* ''Breeding'' (EP), 2007 album by Dirty Little Rabbits * ''
Breeding Death Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm, formed in 1998. The band has released six full-length albums, two EPs and two DVDs depicting their performances at Wacken Open Air (in 2005) and Bloodstock Open Air (in 2010). The g ...
'', 2000 album by Bloodbath * ''
Breeding the Spawn ''Breeding the Spawn'' is the second studio album by American death metal band Suffocation, released in May 1993 through Roadrunner Records. It was the band's first album with bassist Chris Richards, and their last to feature drummer Mike Smith ...
'', 1993 album by Suffocation * ''
Dust Breeding ''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly subtitled as the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. They are produced by Big Finish Prod ...
'', 2001 Doctor Who television series audio play


Places

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Breeding, Kentucky Breeding is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It ...
, a town in the United States


See also

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Copulation (zoology) In zoology, copulation is animal sexual behavior in which a male introduces sperm into the female's body, especially directly into her reproductive tract. This is an aspect of mating. Many aquatic animals use external fertilization, whereas ...
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Good breeding (disambiguation) Good breeding may refer to: *Purebred, "cultivated varieties" of a species *Etiquette, the socially reinforced standards of conduct which show the actor to be cultured, polite, and refined *Eugenics Eugenics is a set of largely discredited b ...
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Hybrid (biology) In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction. Generally, it means that each cell has genetic material from two ...
, breeding between dissimilar parents *
Inbreeding Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely genetic distance, related genetically. By analogy, the term is used in human reproduction, but more commonly refers to the genet ...
, breeding between close relatives *
Manners Etiquette ( /ˈɛtikɛt, -kɪt/) can be defined as a set of norms of personal behavior in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviors that accord with the conventions and n ...
, the unenforced standards of human conduct *
Outbreeding depression In biology, outbreeding depression happens when crosses between two genetically distant groups or populations result in a reduction of fitness. The concept is in contrast to inbreeding depression, although the two effects can occur simultaneously o ...
, reduced fitness from breeding of unrelated individuals *
Purebred Purebreds are cultivars of an animal species achieved through the process of selective breeding. When the lineage of a purebred animal is recorded, that animal is said to be pedigreed. Purebreds breed true-to-type, which means the progeny of l ...
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sexual intercourse Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity typically involving the insertion of the Erection, erect male Human penis, penis inside the female vagina and followed by Pelvic thrust, thrusting motions for sexual pleasure ...
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