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Taxonomical aids such as herbariums, museums, botanical gardens, and zoological parks are used to identify, classify, and preserve specimens of plants and animals. Herbariums preserve dried plant specimens and arrange them according to classification systems. Botanical gardens grow and label living plants. Museums preserve plant and animal specimens through various methods like drying, pickling, or stuffing. Zoological parks provide natural habitats for observing animal behavior. Keys are analytical guides used to identify organisms based on contrasting characteristics in a series of dichotomous leads.

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Taxonomical aids such as herbariums, museums, botanical gardens, and zoological parks are used to identify, classify, and preserve specimens of plants and animals. Herbariums preserve dried plant specimens and arrange them according to classification systems. Botanical gardens grow and label living plants. Museums preserve plant and animal specimens through various methods like drying, pickling, or stuffing. Zoological parks provide natural habitats for observing animal behavior. Keys are analytical guides used to identify organisms based on contrasting characteristics in a series of dichotomous leads.

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PLUS ONE ZOOLOGY

The Living World


FOCUS AREA NOTES
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• Scientific name of Man & House Fly


• Man : Homo sapiens
• House Fly : Musca domestica

Taxonomical aids
• Taxonomical aids help to identify the species, helps to place the
organism in taxonomical hierarchy and also to store the specimen
for future use.

• Taxonomical aids such as herbarium, museum, botanical Gardens,


zoological parks, keys, Flora, Manuals, Monographs etc are used for
taxonomical studies.

Herbarium

• Herbarium is a store house of collected plant specimens that are


dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.

• Herbarium sheets are arranged according to universally accepted


system of classification.
• These specimens become a store house for future use and serve as a
quick referral system in taxonomy.

• The herbarium sheets carry a label providing information about


date and place of collection, English, local and botanical names,
collector’s name etc.

Botanical Gardens
• Botanical gardens are specialized gardens which have collections of
living plants for reference.

• Plant species in these gardens are grown for identification purposes.

• Each plant is labeled indicating its botanical / scientific name and


its family.

• The famous botanical gardens are at Kew (England), Indian


Botanical Garden-Howrah (India), and at National Botanical
Research Institute (Lucknow).
Museum

• Museums are places where plant animal specimens are preserved


for study and reference.

• Specimens are preserved in the containers or jars in the


preservative solutions.

• Plant and animal specimens are also 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 also have collections of animal skeletons.

Zoological Parks

• These are the places where wild animals are kept in protected
environments under human care.
• This helps to learn about the behavior of animals and also their
food habits.

• In zoological parks, we provide a natural habitat to the animals.

• These parks are commonly called zoos.

Key
• Key is a taxonomical aid used for identification of plants and
animals based on their similarities and dissimilarities.

• The keys are based on the contrasting characters generally in pair


called couplet.

• Each statement in a key is called a lead.


• Separate taxonomic keys are required for each taxonomic category
such as family, genus and species for identification purposes.
• Keys are generally analytical in nature.

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