Breeding

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

Biology

 * Breeding (sex act)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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