Which one of the following is not used for ex-situ plant conservation?
Correct answer: A. Shifting cultivation
- A. Shifting cultivation
- B. Botanical gardens
- C. Field gene banks
- D. Seed banks
Explanation
Ex situ conservation is the conservation of selected rare plants/animals in places outside their natural homes. It includes botanical gardens or zoological parks, seed banks, cryopreservation, field gene banks, and sacred plants. Many wild and domesticated species are well managed and collected in botanical gardens, zoological parks, wildlife safari parks, arboreta, etc. Most of these have capture breeding programs to restore the decreasing number of animals and help the survival of existing individuals of the species. Gene banks are institutes that maintain stocks of viable seeds (seed banks), live plants (orchards), tissue culture, and frozen germplasm with a whole range of genetic viability.
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