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gene bankCollection of seeds or other forms of genetic material, such as tubers, spores, bacterial or yeast cultures, live animals and plants, frozen sperm and eggs, or frozen embryos. These are stored for possible future use in agriculture, plant and animal breeding, or in medicine, genetic engineering, or the restocking of wild habitats where species have become extinct. Gene banks may be increasingly used as the rate of extinction increases, depleting the Earth's genetic variety (biodiversity). |
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At the request of Skovmand, whose gene bank houses 129 sister varieties of "Bobwhite" wheat, molecular geneticist Marilyn Warburton fingerprinted them and found enough genetic diversity to confirm that they should be stored separately. in a tissue or gene bank, data archive, warehouse), and/or collected about third parties in research (e. When Fen gains access to the gene bank at the Ark, the conservation center Daria works for, the stakes are raised even higher. |
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