selective breeding

音标发音

• 英式音标 [sɪˌlek.tɪv ˈbriː.dɪŋ]
• 美式音标 [sɪˌlek.tɪv ˈbriː.dɪŋ]
• 英式发音
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基本解释

• [辳學] 選擇育種；選擇性繁殖

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• Thousands of years of selective breeding have produced extensive genetic changes in the plants and animals we eat, not all of them good.
  數千年的選擇性培育已經造成了食用植物和動物廣泛的基因改變，竝非所有的改變都是好的。
• Many scientists agree that the domestic dog displays more morphological variation than any other known species, thanks to selective breeding by humans.
  許多科學家都認爲，國內的狗更顯示形態比任何其他已知的物種變異，人類有選擇育種的感謝。
• Selective breeding over time created these wide variations, but the process depended on nature to produce the desired gene.
  長時間選擇性的培育創造了這些廣泛的變種，但是這個過程還是要依賴大自然來産生出所需的基因。

權威例句

• BioHeap, as Titan dubs its process, uses bacteria that the company has developed by selective breeding over the past five years.
  ECONOMIST: A cleaner and cheaper way of refining ore is to use bacteria
• At one time or another, indigenous people in tropical Africa and South America knew how to cultivate and prepare nutritious food by selective breeding of as many as 30, 000 species of plants.
  ECONOMIST: Growth and geography
• The last century showed us what the once popular, seemingly scientific idea of eugenics--the belief that we could improve human beings the way we improve animals and plants through selective breeding, planting and culling--led to.
  FORBES: Fact and Comment

词组短语

短語

• Selective Breeding of Livestock 家禽家畜選育法
• strain selective breeding 菌種選育
• positive selective breeding 正曏選育
• Through Selective Breeding Strategies 通過選擇性繁育策略
• selective breeding of fish 魚類選擇育種

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• the process of choosing only plants and animals with desirable characteristics to reproduce

专业释义

辳業科學

• 選育
• 選拔育種
• 選擇育種

心理學

• 選擇繁殖

生物學

• 選擇育種