gene bank

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noun botany

a collection of seeds, plants, tissue cultures, etc, of potentially useful species, esp species containing genes of significance to the breeding of crops

another name for gene library

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Words nearby gene bank

genealogical tree, genealogy, gene amplification, genearch, gene augmentation therapy, gene bank, gene clone, genecology, gene doping, gene dosage compensation, gene flow

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How to use gene bank in a sentence

It got it all out there… Gene Hackman and Douglas… Melvyn Douglas is amazing.
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One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
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But just up the steep river bank and through the brush is an opening.
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He was surprised that the central bank did not understand that.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
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Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
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The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
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The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
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At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
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