Breeding

Breeding is sexual reproduction that produces offspring, usually animals or plants. It can only occur between a male and a female animal or plant.

Breeding may refer to:

• Breeding in the wild, the natural process of reproduction in the animal kingdom
• Animal husbandry, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits
• Sexual reproduction of plants
• Plant breeding, through specimens selected by humans for desirable traits

Science

• Breeding refers to nuclear transmutations that produce fuel for further reactions, in a breeder reactor to become fissile material or in a fusion reactor to produce tritium, see Tritium#Lithium

Biology

• Mating
• 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
• 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
• Breeding (sex act)

People

• James Floyd Breeding (1901–1977), U.S. Congressman from Kansas
• Marv Breeding (1934–2006), 1960s U.S. Major League Baseball player

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

Places

• Breeding, Kentucky, a town in the United States

See also

• Copulation (zoology)
• Good breeding (disambiguation)
• Hybrid (biology), breeding between dissimilar parents
• Inbreeding, breeding between close relatives
• Manners, the unenforced standards of human conduct
• Outbreeding depression, reduced fitness from breeding of unrelated individuals
• Purebred