Page 5 - Lesson notes- Living world

1.Store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed & preserved
on sheets.
-Sheets are arranged according to universally accepted classification system.
-used as ready reference in scientific studies.

2. Botanical Gardens :

Collection of various living plant species in form of gardenfor identification
purpose
-Used for identification of plants.
-Example: Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, England, Indian Botanical Garden
Howrah, National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow etc.

3-Museum :

-Collection of preserved plant &animal specimens.
-Specimens may be preserved in preservative solutions viz.Formalin (40%).
-Specimens may also be preserved as dry specimenseg. Insects and stuffed large
animals.
-Skeleton of animals may be also as museum specimen.
-Used as actual material for study and identification.

Zoological Parks:

Place where wild animals are kept in protected environment under human care .
eg. Alipur zoo, Kolkata, West Bengal
National Zoological Park of New Delhi
1. Used as aid to learn about food habits and behaviour, Life cycle.

Key :

Taxonomical aid based on contrasting characters called as couplet
1. Couplet has two opposite statements, each called lead.
2. Separate keys for separate taxonomic categories needed.
3. Used to classify organism.

Flora :

Actual account of habitat & distribution of plant species in an area.

Manual :

•Have description of species in an area.
• Used for getting information foridentification of names.