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What is the purpose of zoological parks and botanical gardens?
What is the purpose of zoological parks and botanical gardens?
- To preserve gametes of threatened species
- To propagate plants using tissue culture methods
- To maintain animals that have become extinct in the wild
- To protect and give special care to threatened animals and plants (correct)
Which of the following is an example of ex situ conservation?
Which of the following is an example of ex situ conservation?
- Preserving gametes of threatened species (correct)
- Keeping threatened animals in their natural habitat
- Fertilizing eggs in vitro
- Propagating plants using tissue culture methods
What can be kept for long periods in seed banks?
What can be kept for long periods in seed banks?
- Eggs fertilized in vitro
- Threatened animals
- Seeds of different genetic strains of commercially important plants (correct)
- Gametes of threatened species
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