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Ex situ conservation refers to conservation of biodiversity outside the boundaries of their natural habitats, in which zoos help in captive breeding of organisms which are endangered, whereas botanical gardens have seed gene banks, tisuues culture labs and other technologies for storing and growing germplasm.
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