breeder
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The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.
Poultry breeder Robert McKibbin is providing birds for the display and he is looking forward to getting back to some form of showing.
From BBC
In 2017, Santos was charged with theft in Pennsylvania after authorities said he used thousands of dollars in fraudulent checks to buy puppies from dog breeders.
From Seattle Times
In past decades, breeders would pair up wild birds who had experience reproducing, but in 1992 Congress passed the Wild Bird Conservation Act, which banned exotic bird imports except under limited circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times
Plant breeders started growing old seeds, previously discarded for producing paltry harvests, to identify tastier versions with lower levels of these compounds.
From Scientific American
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