Insurance
•The opportunity
to preserve biodiversity and resurrect
species if other conservation approaches
fail.
•Systematic
banking of genome resources using cryopreserved germ plasm offers the opportunity to further conservation strategies of endangered species by assisting in the effective management of captive populations.
•A Genome Bank
(seed bank, genome resource bank,
gene bank) is a frozen repository of biological materials including sperm, embryos, tissues, blood products and DNA.