{{Wiktionary|Breeding|breeding}} {{tocright}} '''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 {{section link|Tritium|Lithium}}

=== 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

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