Applied spec. to the action of a breeder in selecting individuals from which to breed, in order to obtain some desired quality or characteristic in…

The stunting of the growth or development of an animal or plant; the birth or development of animals that are small for their kind, esp. (in later…

Predetermination or selection of the sex (or sex ratio) of offspring.

an assessment of the genetic value of an animal or plant made by examining its progeny.

= artificial insemination n.

In scientific uses. Molecular Biology. The genetic alteration of a bacterial cell by the introduction or absorption of extraneous DNA (see transform…

Biology. The conversion of genetic information into the structural and functional molecules of an organism; spec. the process by which the sequence…

Biochemistry. The formation of a hybrid macromolecule by artificially recombining complementary subunits (single polynucleotide strands in the…

Biology. The process by which genetic information represented by the sequence of nucleotides in the DNA of a cell or virus is copied into molecules…

the synthesis of DNA from an RNA template, typically occurring in retroviruses; cf. transcription, n. 6.