UPSC 2016 CDS I GK Paper

Germplasm is required for the propagation of plants and animals. Germplasm refers to the living genetic resources such as seeds or tissues that are maintained for the purpose of animal and plant breeding, preservation and other research uses. These resources may take the form of seed collection stored in seed banks, trees growing in nurseries, animal breeding lines maintained in animal breeding programmes or egg and sperm repository or gene banks, etc