animal breeding
Controlled mating practices
Animal breeding is the deliberate mating of animals to produce offspring with desired traits—size, temperament, milk production, coat color.
Selective breeding has shaped domestic animals for thousands of years, creating everything from draft horses to toy poodles.
The term covers both traditional methods and modern techniques like artificial insemination.
She studied animal breeding at the agricultural college.
- artificial inseminationMedical sperm introduction procedure
- embryo transferPlacing fertilized egg inside
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- Neolithic RevolutionAdoption of farming, settlement
- alleleGene variant at one locus
hybrid vigor · gene pool · epigenetics · phenotype · heterozygosity · germplasm · domestication · inbreeding · livestock production · show dog · genetic drift · genetic disorders · herd dynamics · estrus · pedigree · mating · sire · stud farm
- animals and humanspets, cats, dogs, pet ownership, companion animals
- zoologymammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, insects
- genetics topicsgene expression, genetic variation, genetic engineering, genetic counseling, dominant traits
- livestock sciencelivestock feed, dairy cattle, beef cattle, cattle ranching, dairy farming
- farm servicesfarm management, farm labor, harvesting, planting, plowing
- selective breedingartificial selection, crossbreeding, inbreeding, linebreeding, hybridization
animal breedingnatural selection
Differential reproductive success
animal breedingcloning
Making identical copies
in vitro fertilization · asexual reproduction · parthenogenesis · genetic engineering