A taxonomical aid that contains actual preserved specimens of plants and animals is:
Herbarium
Key
Flora
Museum
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National botanical research Institute is situated at
Lucknow
Kolkata
Mumbai
Chennai
A herbarium label serves as a permanent record of a plant specimen. Which of these is NOT a core element of this record?
Scientific name of the plant
Date and place of collection
Description of the ecosystem
Name of the collector
Which statement BEST describes the relationship between a monograph and a flora?
A monograph is a summarized version of a flora, focusing on key species.
A flora is a collection of monographs from a specific region.
A monograph provides an in-depth study of a specific taxonomic group, while a flora documents all plant species in a given geographical area.
Both are interchangeable terms for comprehensive taxonomic treatments.
A comprehensive treatise on a particular taxon is known as a:
Flora
Manual
Monograph
Key
The label of a herbarium sheet does not carry information of
date of collection
name of collector
local names
height of the plant
Select the incorrect statement.
Water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at standard atmospheric pressure.
Water is a non-polar molecule.
Water has a high specific heat capacity.
Where labelling is done/pasted on herbarium sheet?
Lower RHS
Lower LHS
Upper RHS
Upper LHS
Zoos are examples of which type of taxonomical aid?
In-situ Conservation
Museum
Herbarium
Ex-situ Conservation
An institution, where valuable plant material likely to become irretrievably lost in the wild or in cultivation is preserved in viable condition is known as
Genome
Gene library
Gene bank
Herbarium
