MCQ
Ex situ conservation is carried out through:
  • A
    Funneling the threatened species into trade.
  • B
    Off-site collections.
  • C
    Gene banks.
  • D
    All of the above.

Answer

  1. All of the above.

Explanation:

The conservation of components of biological diversity outside their natural habitats is ex-situ conservation.

Ex-situ (off site) conservation is a set of conservation techniques involving the transfer of a target species away from its native habitat.

Ex-situ techniques include: seed storage, captive breeding, slow-growth storage, DNA storage.

The main purposes of ex-situ collections are the rescue and preservation of threatened genetic material and the breeding of species for reintroduction in cases where a species continued survival in its native habitat is threatened.

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