breeder in Czech

breeder in Czech

What does "breeder" mean?

1. noun Someone who raises plants or animals for a living in order to produce more of them.
   "Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly."
2. noun Short for breeder reactor, a nuclear reactor that produces more fuel than it uses up.
   "Engineers explained how a breeder can create more fuel than it consumes."
3. noun (in cellular automata) A pattern that grows quickly by repeatedly copying smaller patterns inside itself.
   "A glider-emitting breeder pattern can probably also be constructed in this rule, which would out-radiate any chaotic pattern by a considerable margin."
4. noun (informal) Someone who has children, or can have them, especially seen as focused on family life.

breeder in a sentence

• Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly.
• The breeder showed us a litter of healthy golden retriever puppies.
• Engineers explained how a breeder can create more fuel than it consumes.
• The country built a breeder to make better use of its nuclear fuel.

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