Is Freezing a Good Way to Preserve Genetic Materials?

Ank Ank is the head of a team that gathered 17,000 fraser fir seeds in 20 19. They are currently stored at shaw nature reserve in gray summit, missouri. He says freezing slows down metabalic processes in the seeds so they can be preserved longer. Ank Ank: "There's a lot more that goes into it than you can imagine"