Pemuliaan tanaman
Plasma nutfah adalah bahan baku dasar pemuliaan karena di sini tersimpan berbagai keanekaragaman sifat yang dimiliki oleh masing-masing nomor koleksi (aksesi). Tanpa keanekaragaman, perbaikan sifat tidak mungkin dilakukan.
Unsur kimia
The composition of the human body, by contrast, more closely follows the composition of seawater—save that the human body has additional stores of carbon and nitrogen necessary to form the proteins and nucleic acids, together with phosphorus in the nucleic acids and energy transfer molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) that occurs in the cells of all living organisms. Certain kinds of organisms require particular additional elements, for example the magnesium in chlorophyll in green plants, the calcium in mollusc shells, or the iron in the hemoglobin in vertebrate animals' red blood cells.