23 July, 2009

Daily Question #132

A and B are storage facilities designed with a similar objective. Identify both.




Cracked fully by Navin, Kamal Rathi and Sanjeet !!

Answer : A - Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The facility was established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern.

B - San Diego Frozen Zoo, a cryonic facility for the long term storage of animal and plant genetic material such as DNA, sperm, eggs, and embryos.

8 comments:

navinpai said...

A: Svalbard Seed Vault Also known as the Arctic Seed Vault

B:Long shot on this one....The Frozen Zoo??

Unknown said...

Seed Vaults.
the first one is near north pole about 150 miles away from it.
It was declared time magazine 6th best invention of the year 2008..

ashwin said...

Seed banks
Svalbard International Seed Vault &
Wellcome Trust Millennium Building (WTMB)

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Ravikrishnan said...

Doomsday Vault.

Anonymous said...

Hi Johny You didnt respond to my last comments
Here is the answer to to question number 132
Both are the storage facilities that stores food grains and seeds for future in case there is global catastrophe like nuclear war,drought, or an epedemic

Anonymous said...

Srry james for the first comments regarding question 132 i havent read it full the identification is as follows
A- Global Seed Vault in Norway
B-San Diego frozen zoo

A is stores the food grains seeds etc a and B stores genes,eggs etc of for extinct and endangered species both can be used in case of global catastrophe that will lead to a loss of genetic materail

Kamal Rathi said...

A - Svalbard Global Seed Vaultis a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The facility was established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern. The Seed Vault holds duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in genebanks worldwide.
B - Frozen Zoo (is a cryonic facility for the long term storage of animal and plant genetic material such as DNA, sperm, eggs, and embryos.)

goutamjay said...

A- Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norvegia
B- Donno..
The connection should be seed bank rite??