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  2. Tree breeding - Wikipedia

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    Tree breeding is the application of genetic, reproductive biology and economics principles to the genetic improvement and management of forest trees. In contrast to the selective breeding of livestock, arable crops, and horticultural flowers over the last few centuries, the breeding of trees, with the exception of fruit trees, is a relatively recent occurrence.

  3. List of paraphilias - Wikipedia

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    Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress, impairment in functioning, and/or ...

  4. Eugenics - Wikipedia

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    A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...

  5. Breeding - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Plant breeding - Wikipedia

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    Selective breeding played a crucial role in the Green Revolution of the 20th century. Modern plant breeding is applied genetics, but its scientific basis is broader, covering molecular biology, cytology, systematics, physiology, pathology, entomology, chemistry, and statistics . It has also developed its own technology.

  7. Selective breeding - Wikipedia

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    Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

  8. Dendrophilia (paraphilia) - Wikipedia

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    A person hugging a tree. Many people use vegetables and fruits such as cucumbers or carrots to insert into their vagina or anus as an object to receive sexual pleasure or orgasms when they masturbate. In men, holes can be used inside trees or trunks, assimilating the shape of a vagina, through which the penis is inserted.

  9. Autopoiesis - Wikipedia

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    In their 1972 book Autopoiesis and Cognition, Chilean biologists Maturana and Varela described how they invented the word autopoiesis. [4]: 89 : 16 "It was in these circumstances ... in which he analyzed Don Quixote's dilemma of whether to follow the path of arms (praxis, action) or the path of letters (poiesis, creation, production), I understood for the first time the power of the word ...