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

Biology

  • 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
  • Copulation (zoology)
  • 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
  • sexual intercourse
  • 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

  • Breeding (sex act) (kink)
  • 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