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Question
What are taxonomical aids? Give the importance of herbaria and museums. How are Botanical gardens and Zoological parks useful in conserving biodiversity?
Solution
The collection of information, techniques and procedures which helps to identify and classify an individual is called taxonomic aids.
Importance of herbarium
- The collection of dried, pressed & preserved plants in sheets is called herbarium.
- These sheets are arranged systemically according to the accepted system of classification.
- It is used to provide information about flora.
- It is used to study the morphology of plants.
- Hence its comparative studies are used in the identification of unknown plants.
Importance of museums
It consists of a collection of preserved plants and animals used for study and references.
Many museums publish journals and research papers to make available the results of research in their collection.
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