breeding program
Planned animal reproduction
A breeding program is a systematic effort to produce animals or plants with desired traits through controlled reproduction.
Zoos run breeding programs to preserve endangered species: The panda breeding program has been remarkably successful.
Agricultural breeding programs develop crops for higher yields or disease resistance.
The term occasionally appears in dystopian contexts referring to human reproduction.
- selective breedingControlled reproduction for traits
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- crossbreedingMating unlike organisms
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
studbook · lineage · captive breeding · disease resistance · endangered species · conservation effort · genotyping · germplasm · mutagenesis · hybridization · gene editing · genetic diversity · companion animals · drought tolerance · biodiversity loss · mating · pedigree · artificial insemination
- livestock farmingcattle ranch, dairy farm, stud farm, sheep shearing, pig farm
- Nature Medianature documentary, nature film, nature show, nature series, nature channel
- wildlife conservationhabitat protection, game warden, species protection, wildlife officer, wildlife refuges
- zookeepingzookeeper, zookeepers, keepers, zoo management, feeding
- breedingselective breeding, breeder, crossbreeding, mating, breeding pair
- rewilding effortswolf reintroduction, species recovery, captive breeding, rewilding, soft release
breeding programpest control
Managing unwanted organisms
population control · extinction · depopulation · pest eradication