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Animal breeding as an ancient human occupation, can be traced back to domestication and dates back to at least 14 thousand yrs ago. The modern processes of purebred breeding evolved between the late 18th century and the late 20th century, influenced significantly by advancements and increased understanding of genetics and eugenics.
Artificial breeding via artificial insemination or embryo transfer is often used in sheep and cattle breeding to quickly expand, or improve purebred herds. Embryo transfer techniques allow top quality female livestock to have a greater influence on the genetic advancement of a herd or flock in much the same way that artificial insemination has ...
Breeding stock is a group of animals used for the purpose of planned breeding. When individuals are looking to breed animals, they look for certain valuable traits in purebred animals, or may intend to use some type of crossbreeding to produce a new type of stock with different, and presumably superior abilities in a given area of endeavor. For ...
Star Trek: Dilithium (Li 2) exists (two covalently bonded lithium atoms); but something else is referred to in fiction. In Star Trek, dilithium occurs in crystal form and serves as a controlling agent in the matter-antimatter reaction cores used to power the faster-than-light warp drive. In the original series, dilithium crystals are rare and ...
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Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.This is a list of the many reference books that have been published to accompany the films, television series, and the Expanded Universe of books, comics and video games.
Adventures. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - A Call for Heroes: A sequel to Discovery on Jakku from the Beginner's Game. It is a 30-page booklet that is available from their website as a downloadable PDF file.
The isolation of two populations of a species due to a change in breeding periods. This isolation acts as a precursor to allochronic speciation, a type of speciation which results when two populations of a species become isolated due to differences in reproductive timing. An example is the periodical 13- and 17-year Magicicada species. [3]