Breeding is the producing of offspring, usually animals or plants

• Animal breeding, through selected specimens such as dogs, horses, and rabbits
• Plant breeding, through selected specimens such as trees

Breeding may also refer to:

in science:

• Biobreeding rat, an animal used for Type 1 diabetes modeling
• 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
• 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
• Thoroughbred breeding theories, for horses
• True breeding organism, an organism that produces only offspring with the same phenotype

in 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
• Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage, Child ballad no. 149

in government:

• Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund, equine research within New York state
• Breeding Bird Survey, a government monitoring programs for bird populations
• Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, People's Republic of China breeding facility
• Kartaniya Ghat Alligator Breeding center, government center in Indian

for locations:

• Crop breeding in Nepal
• Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding, in Siebeldingen, Germany
• Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute, in Geisenheim, Germany
• List of albatross breeding locations, a list of such programs
• Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, in Cologne, Germany
• UPLB Institute of Plant Breeding, at the University of the Philippines, Los Baņos
• World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses, an equestrian organization
• World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival, captive breeding organization

for people:

• James Floyd Breeding, U.S. Congressman from Kansas
• Marv Breeding, 1960s U.S. Major League Baseball player

See also

• Good breeding, disambiguation page
• Inbreeding, is breeding between close relatives
• Inbreeding depression, reduced fitness from breeding of related individuals
• Manners, the unenforced standards of human conduct
• Mating
• Outbreeding depression, reduced fitness from breeding of unrelated individuals
• Provenance, the origin or source from which something comes, and the history of subsequent owners
• Purebred, cultivars of a species
• Sex
• Sexual intercourse

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