Breeding

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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:

Animal husbandry, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits
Breeding in the wild, the natural process of reproduction in the animal kingdom
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

Breeding (sex act)
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
Mating
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