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Short note on herbarium Short note on Museum
Short note on key Short note on Botanical gardens

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Herbarium

• it is defined as store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.
• these sheets are arranged according to a universally accepted system of classification.
• These specimens, along with their descriptions on herbarium sheets, become a store house or repository for future use.
• these sheets are label on right hand side at lower corner which provides information about:

1. date
2. pace
3. English name
4. vernacular or local name
5. botanical name
6. family
7. name of the collector.

• Herbaria also serve as quick referral systems in taxonomical studies.
• list of some herbaria of world:

1. Herbarium of the forest research institute, Dehradun.
2. Central National Herbarium, Calcutta.

Botanical Gardens

• Botanical gardens is an institution located in an enclosed piece of land which grows numerous kinds of plants obtained from different places for botanical studies.
• it is ex-situ conservation strategies of plants.
• Plant species in these gardens are grown for identification purposes and each plant is labelled indicating its botanical/scientific name and its family.
• list of some botanical gardens:

1. Royal botanical garden, Kew (England)
2. National botanical garden, Lucknow
3. Indian botanical garden, Howrah
4. Lloyd botanical garden, Darjeeling

Museum

• Museum is a place used for storing, preservation and exhibition of both plants and animals.
• Biological museums are generally set up in educational institutes such as schools and colleges.
• Museums have collections of preserved plant and animal specimens for study and reference.
• Specimens are preserved in the containers or jars in preservative solutions. Commonly used preservation solution is formalin.
• Plant and animal specimens may also be preserved as dry specimens.
• Insects are preserved in insect boxes after collecting, killing and pinning.
• Larger animals like birds and mammals are usually stuffed and preserved.
• Museums often have collections of skeletons of animals too.
• National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Delhi is important from natural science point of view.

Answer 2

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Herbarium is a collection store of plants in their dried condition. Plantsare pressed, dried and preserved on white sheets for reference. The sheets with specimens are arranged in one of the accepted system of classification. Herbarium aids in taxonomical studies of different species.

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A museum (/mjuːˈziːəm/ mew-ZEE-əm; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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A botanical garden is a controlled and staffed institution for the maintenance of a living collection of plants under scientific management for purposes of education and research, together with such libraries, herbaria, laboratories, and museums as are essential to its particular undertakings.