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Proliferative vs Breeding - What's the difference?

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Proliferative is a related term of breeding.


As adjectives the difference between proliferative and breeding

is that proliferative is (not comparable|cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells while breeding is of, relating to or used for breeding.

As a noun breeding is

the process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.

As a verb breeding is

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proliferative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells
  • * 1988 , Nydia G. Testa & Robert Peter Gale, Hematopoiesis: Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation , Informa Health Care, ISBN 082477938X, page 327:
  • "...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'..."
  • * 2000 , Yvonne A. & Christopher R. Barnett, Aging: Methods and Protocols , Humana Press, ISBN 0896035824, page 40:
  • "cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double."
  • * 2007 , Eduardo M. Torres et al.'', "Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast," ''Science 317 (5840), 904, page 916:
  • "We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes..."
  • proliferating; tending to proliferate
  • * 1940 , Albert B. Sabin and Joel Warren, "The Curative Effect of Certain Gold Compounds on Experimental Proliferative, Chronic Arthritis in Mice," Journal of Bacteriology 40 (6):
  • "...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative , chronic arthritis."

    See also

    * proliferational ----

    breeding

    Noun

    (-)
  • The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
  • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, page=222, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
  • The act of copulation in animals.
  • The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
  • Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  • * Shakespeare
  • She had her breeding at my father's charge.
  • Descent; pedigree; extraction.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding .
  • (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to or used for breeding.
  • Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.

    Derived terms

    * breeding ground

    Verb

    (head)
  • Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.

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