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
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
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