inseminate
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Once Crowe had gained her trust, he was able to artificially inseminate her using sperm from a male crane.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Semen from a Merino ram from Australia was used to artificially inseminate 35 Romney sheep on two farms in Gwynedd.
From BBC ● May 15, 2023
The reason isn’t romantic: Female termites can’t store sperm, so they need a male to inseminate them over and over.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
But the timing was crucial: Females usually lay two or three eggs and the moment one egg is laid is the right time to inseminate the next one.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022
Use 0.1 c.c. of the mixed liquor to inseminate each of a series of three nutrose surface plates.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
If a breeder inseminates cows with semen from an infertile bull, the cows will not become pregnant.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Female orcas kept captive in marine zoos can be artificially inseminated to breed more calves, which can later be used to attract more visitors and perform in shows.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
In Switzerland, around 800,000 cows are artificially inseminated every year.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Yet in the past Swanson successfully inseminated three zoo ocelots using frozen nonwild sperm, resulting in kittens.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023
In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not phosphoresce.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
And with each insemination costing 80 Swiss francs, that can soon eat up a breeder's budget: a typical Swiss dairy farm spends several thousand Swiss francs a year on artificially inseminating its herd of cows.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
Currently, Colorado has no specific law against doctors using their own sperm when inseminating a woman from an “anonymous” donor.
From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019
Dr Barwin was previously sanctioned in 2013 for artificially inseminating three patients with the wrong sperm at his Ottawa clinic.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2018
He stopped practicing in 2014, one year after his license was suspended for two months after he admitted inseminating four women with the wrong sperm.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2018
Larger-scale breeding operations are more likely to use in vitro techniques: inseminating many egg cells from a given cow in a Petri dish, creating dozens of embryos instead of a handful.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2015
