The identification and selective combination of desirable genes, with the goal of enhanced yield, reduced susceptibility to plant disease, improved seed quality or better nitrogen-fixing ability
They are seasonal breeders, the rut taking place in early January The gestation period is approximately nine months and the bulk of the calf crop is born within a forty day period Despite being unable to walk for several hours, the females make no attempt to hide their young Once with the herd, the young join up to form nursery herds when the mothers are feeding
the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
The process of creating a fissionable fuel from an unfissionable material In the case of nuclear reactors, unfissionable uranium-238 is transformed into fissionable plutonium-239
elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society