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Notes Ex-situ conservation is conservation outside their habitats by perpetuating sample populations
in genetic resource centres, zoo, botanical gardens, culture collections etc, or in the form of
gene pools and storage for fish, germplasm banks for seeds, pollen, semen, ova, cells etc.
On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following questions.
(a) How do the Indian religions and culture help in the protection of wildlife ?
(b) How are the different species related to one another ?
(c) What is meant by in-situ conservation ?

(d) What is ex-situ conservation ?
(e) Frame two questions on the basis of the underlined part of the passage.
(f) Find the correct options to complete the given sentences :
(A) Forests can help in ...
(i) the production of high yielding and disease restraint variety.
(ii) ex-situ conservation.
(iii) in-situ conservation.
(iv) cloning of animals.
(B) Ex-situ conservation means ...
(i) conservation of wildlife in natural environment.
(ii) conservation of wildlife outside its natural environment.
(iii) perpetuation of a large number of animals.
(iv) Biosphere Reserves.
(g) Use the words ‘concern’ and ‘chain’ as verbs.

(h) Find words in the passage which mean the opposite of the following :
(i) destruction (para 1)
(ii) prone (para 3)
Answers
(a) The love of wildlife is a part of Indian culture. Moreover the people think that different
animals are related to different gods. Thus Indian religions and culture help in the
protection of wildlife.
(b) Different species are related to one another in an ecosystem. If the number of a species
increases or decreases, the whole system is disturbed.
(c) In-situ conservation means the conservation of the species within the ecosystems of the
original habitat. It is the best, easiest and most advantageous. It is also the most feasible
method to conserve biological diversity.
(d) Ex-situ conservation is the conservation outside the habitats of the animals. It is done by
perpetuating sample population in genetic resource centres. Many species have been
kept alive solely through these facilities.
(e) (i) Why is it necessary to worry about wildlife ?
(ii) Why is every species very important ?
(f) (A) (i) in-situ conservation.
(B) (ii) conservation of wildlife outside its natural environment.

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