Unit 1: Increasing the Success of Captive Breeding (Conservation Methods)
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- Conservation Methods - Increasing the Success of Captive Breeding
- Cryopreservation - freezing and storing eggs, sperm and embryos
- Used for future breeding programmes
- Sperm can be transported and produce offspring across the world
- Stored sperm can be used after the animal has died
- Artificial Insemination - semen is collected and artificially inserted into a female
- Reduces problems and risks of moving animals
- Embryo Transfer - fertilised eggs or embryos of a rare species is transferred into closely related common species e.g. bongo -> eland
- Enables more young to be produced per female than through normal breeding
- Micro-propagation - tissue culture is cultivated to produce individual genetically identical plants
- Many plants can be produced from a single plant
- Cryopreservation - freezing and storing eggs, sperm and embryos
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