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What is meant by germplasm collection?

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Germplasm is the living genetic resources that fulfil the purpose of animal and plant breeding, preservation and other research use. It contains all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given organism. The germplasm is also referred as the genetic components which are present in the egg cell and the sperms and are inherited to the next generation.

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