Science
- 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
- Crop breeding in Nepal
- 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
- In physics and technology, breeding refers to the way in which certain materials can be treated in a breeder reactor to become fissile material.
Read more about this topic: Breeding
Famous quotes containing the word science:
“There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)