Pemuliaan tanaman
Usaha pencarian plasma nutfah baru berarti eksplorasi ke tempat-tempat yang secara tradisional menjadi pusat keanekaragaman hayati (atau hutan) atau dengan melakukan pertukaran koleksi. Lembaga-lembaga publik seperti IRRI dan CIMMYT menyediakan koleksi plasma nutfah bagi publik secara bebas bea, namun untuk kepentingan bisnis diatur oleh perjanjian antara pihak-pihak yang terkait.
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.