Mating and Breeding Articles

• Trees
  Beer and Wine
  Mating and Breeding
  Ecology Research
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Red-cockaded Woodpecker

  About the size of the Northern Cardinal, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is approximately 20-22 cm long, with a wingspan of about 35 cm. Its back is barred with black and white ... > more
• Birds
  Early Birds
  Bird Flu Research
  Zoology
  New Species
  Animals
   
  

  Bird

  Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge ... > more
• Horses
  Mammals
  Mating and Breeding
  Veterinary Medicine
  Animals
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Mule

  In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. This can be compared with the offspring of a male horse with a female donkey, called a hinny. The term ... > more
• Mating and Breeding
  New Species
  Extinction
  Life Sciences
  Wild Animals
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Rotifer

  The rotifers make up a phylum of microscopic, and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. There are a variety of different shapes of rotifer. There is a well-developed cuticle which may be thick ... > more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Nature
  Fish
  Biology
  New Species
  Ecology Research
   

  Speciation

  Speciation refers to the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. There are three main ideas concerning the emergence of new species (Modes of Speciation), each based on the degree ... > more
• Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Seeds
  Nature
  Mating and Breeding
  Agriculture and Food
   
  

  Flower

  A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The flower structure contains the plant's reproductive organs, and its function is to produce ... > more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Biochemistry Research
  Nature
  Biology
   
  

  Natural selection

  Natural selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 for the process he proposed to explain the origin of species and their apparent adaptation to their environment. Along with the rules of ... > more
• Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Cloning
  Genetically Modified
  Agriculture and Food
   

  Transgenic plants

  Transgenic plants are plants that have been genetically engineered, a breeding approach that uses recombinant DNA techniques to create plants with new characteristics.They are identified as a class ... > more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Mating and Breeding
  Nature
  Animals
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Hybrid

  In biology, hybrid has two meanings. The first meaning is the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different taxa. Hybrids between different species within the same genus are ... > more
• Dogs
  Veterinary Medicine
  Mating and Breeding
  Cloning
  Genetics
  Behavioral Science
   
  

  Dog breeding

  Dog breeding is the vocation of mating carefully selected specimens of the same breed to reproduce specific, consistently replicable qualities and characteristics. The skilled breeder has at least ... > more

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