Herbarium
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Write any three importance of herbarium.
Write a short note on herbaria.
- Labelling
- Identification
- Grouping
- Pinning
Explain : 1)Neotype 2)Isotype 3) Lectotype 4)Syntype
- height of plant
- date of collection
- name of collector
- local name of plant
- 42 x 29 cm
- 40 x 30 cm
- 42 x 31 cm
- 41 x 30 cm
How do you prepare your own herbarium sheets? What are the different tools you carry with you while collecting plants for the preparation of a herbarium? What information should a preserved plant material on the herbarium sheet provide for taxonomical studies?
- date and place
- botanical name
- collector’s name
- all the above
The international size of a herbarium sheet is
41cm * 29 cm
16 1/2 inch * 11 1/2 inch
41 inch * 29 inch
Both a. and b.
- It acts as a quick referral system
- No description is provided about specimens, except family name
- Sheets are arranged according to the accepted system of classification
- It is a store house of collected plant specimens only which are dried
Who is called the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
Theophrastus
Aristotle
None of the above
- Date and place of collection, English, local and botanical names, order, collector's name
- Time and place of collection, English, local and botanical names, phylum, collector's name
- Date and place of collection, English, local and botanical names, family, collector's name
- Date and time of collection, English, local and botanical names, class, collector's name
Statement 1: Information given on the label of herbarium sheets includes family.
Statement 2: Families are characterized on the basis of reproductive features of plant species only.
Choose the correct option:
- Statement 1 and 2 are true and statement 2 is the correct explanation for statement 1
- Both the statements are false
- Statement 1 and 2 are true but statement 2 is not a correct explanation for statement 1
- Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false
A. Drying
B. Stiching
C. Collection
D. Labelling
E. Mounting
F. Deposition
- C, D, E, F, B, A
- C, A, E, B, F, D
- C, A, E, B, D, F
- C, A, B, E, F, D
What Is Herbarium?
- Herbarium
- Botanical garden
- Museum
- All of these
Which of the following is preservative part of plants?
Leaves
Flowers
Seed
All of the above
A. The most obvious and technically complicated features are metabolism and consciousness.
B. Growth and reproduction are mutually inclusive events for euglenoids and chrysophytes.
C. Generally, families and orders are identified on the basis of aggregates of vegetative characters only.
D. Herbarium serves as quick referral system in taxonomical studies.
- A, C & D
- A, B, & D
- B & D
- B, C & D
- Local names
- Height of the plant
- Data of collection
- Name of collector
(a) Poisoning
(b) Collection
(c) Drying
(d) Stitching
(e) Mounting
(f) Labeling
(g) Deposition
- Royal Botanical Garden, Kew
- Central National Herbarium, Sibpur
- Madras Herbarium, Coimbatore
- Museum of Natural History, Paris
- 42 x 29 cm
- 40 x 30 cm
- 42 x 31 cm
- 41 x 30 cm
- collector’s name
- date and place
- botanical name
- all the above
- Purpose
- Region
- Plant groups
- All of the above
- 11.5" × 16.5"
- 15.5" × 16.5"
- 18.5 × 10.5"
- 20.5" × 21.5"
- Garden where medicinal plants are grown
- Garden where herbaceous plants are grown
- Chemical to kill plants
- Dry garden