breeding program
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a planned series of actions for breeding animals or plants, typically used in American English
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- The zoo has a successful breeding program for endangered snow leopards.
- Farmers are participating in a new selective breeding program to improve milk production.
- Their new rose variety is the result of a decade-long breeding program.
- The government funded a national breeding program for drought-resistant crops.
- Scientists carefully monitor the genetic diversity within the captive breeding program.
- A special breeding program was established to save the rare butterfly.
- We will launch a breeding program next year to reintroduce the species into the wild.
- Without a carefully managed breeding program, the species would face certain extinction.
- How effective has the condor breeding program been in increasing its population?
- Joining a cooperative breeding program can benefit small-scale dog breeders.