linebreeding
Mating distant relatives
Linebreeding is a breeding strategy that mates animals sharing common ancestors—typically a respected individual several generations back—to concentrate desirable traits while avoiding the closer pairings of inbreeding.
Dog and horse breeders use it to fix qualities like temperament or conformation: The kennel's linebreeding program traces back to a champion sire from the 1990s.
The line between linebreeding and inbreeding is somewhat arbitrary, with linebreeding being the politer term.
Livestock raiser or tender
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- progenyOne's biological descendants
- traitsDistinguishing personal features
- selectionChosen item or items
cattle · horses · swine · sheep · goats · poultry · seedstock · sire
Gene variant at one locus
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- homozygousHaving identical alleles
- heterozygousHaving unlike gene variants
recessive · dominant · gene · heritability · pedigree · DNA · mutation · outcrossing
stockman
Livestock raiser or tender
selection · cattle · horses · swine · sheep · goats · poultry · seedstock · sire · dam
allele
Gene variant at one locus
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- homozygousHaving identical alleles
heterozygous · recessive · dominant · gene · heritability · pedigree · DNA · mutation · outcrossing · consanguinity
ancestry
Family line of descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- descentDownward slope or lineage
- genealogyStudy of family descent
forebears · dynasty · kinship · heritage · parentage · progenitor · studbook · registration
- animal husbandrysire, dam, stud, mare, stallion
- livestock sciencelivestock feed, dairy cattle, beef cattle, cattle ranching, dairy farming
- animal breedingmating, gestation, birth, whelping, lambing
- selective breedingartificial selection, hybridization, pedigree, bloodlines, pig breeds
- bloodstockstallion, stud farm, stud fee, stud book, pedigree chart
- rabbit farmingrabbitry, rabbits, doe, buck, does
linebreedingoutcrossing
Breeding unrelated same-species individuals
outbreeding · crossbreeding · hybridization · interbreeding · gene flow
line, breed, lineage, breeding, breeder, inbred, purebred, crossbred, inbreeding