| Spanish | English |
| banco de datos bibliográfico | literature data bank |
| banco de datos bibliográfico | literature data bank A fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, divided into discrete documents and usually stored in and used with a computer system |
| banco de datos sobre toxicidad acuática | aquatic toxicity data bank |
| banco de especímenes ambientales | environmental specimen bank |
| banco de especímenes ambientales | environmental specimen bank Places in which selected specimens (fish, mussels, milk, soil sample and human tissue, etc.) are stored without being allowed to decompose |
| banco de estiércol | manure bank |
| banco de genes | gene bank Storehouses of seeds or vegetative tissue, kept in low humidity and temperature, to help maintain genetic diversity. Sometimes known as seed banks or germ plasm banks. their contents mostly originate from a wide range of primitive strains and wild crop varieties. The International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), which was established in 1974, promotes the collection, documentation, evaluation, conservation and eventual use of genetic resources of significant plant species. Gene banks are the subject of international controversy because they contain seeds that have mostly been acquired from the developing countries by the industrially rich countries, where they have been used in breeding programmes to develop new strains. Instead of taking decades over a traditional plant breeding programme by fertilization, it is now possible to manipulate directly the genes of plants, creating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are plants modified to give a higher resistance to disease and improved growth and yields and, therefore, increase the profit of the plant breeder and farmer |
| banco de posidonies | posidonia bed |
| banco nacional de abonos orgánicos | public foundation national manure bank |
| bancos de datos | data bank |
| bancos de Posidonios | Posidonia meadows |
| bancos de Posidonios | Posidonia beds |
| conservación de terrazas de banco | conservation bench terrace |
| método del Banco Mundial | World Bank method |
| Restos anatómicos y órganos incluyendo bolsas y bancos de sangre | body parts and organs including blood bags and blood preserves |
