Botanical gardens and zoological parks have
1. Collection of endemic living species only
2. Collection of exotic living species only
3. Collection of endemic and exotic living species
4. Collection of only local plants and animals

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The Indian Botanical Garden and the National Botanical Research Institute are located respectively at:

1. Pune and Howrah 2. Howrah and Lucknow
3. Darjeeling and Lucknow 4. Simla and Dehradun
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Shown below is a Guinness World Records holder - this 250 years old banyan tree with 3616 prop roots is spread across 1.6 Hectares. This tree is located in the:
  
1. Indian Botanic Garden, Kolkata
2. Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
3. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
4. NBRI, Lucknow

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Match each item in Column I with one in Column II and choose your answer from the codes given below:

COLUMN I COLUMN II
Taxonomical aid Feature
I. Flora a. Useful in providing information for identification of names of species found in an area
II. Manuals b. Contains the actual account of habitat and distribution of plants of a given area.
III. Monographs c. Contain information on any one taxon

Codes:

I II III
1. a b c
2. c b a
3. b a c
4. b c a
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Look at a sample of a Herbarium Sheet given in the diagram and select the correct statements regarding a herbarium:

I: Herbarium specimens are accompanied by a label that indicates the location where the plant was growing, the collector and the date collected.
II: Most herbaria utilize a standard system of organizing their specimens into herbarium cases.

1. Only I 2. Only II
3. Both I and II 4. Neither I nor II
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A store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets is called as:
1. Herbarium         
2. Flora
3. Catalogues
4. Manuals

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Study the given figure regarding a taxonomic aid. Read the two statements given after the figure and select the correct option as your answer:
      
I: The taxonomic aid is a dichotomous key.
II: If the entire key consists of exactly two choices at each branching point, the key is called dichotomous.
1. Both I and II are correct but II does not explain I.
2. Both I and II are correct and II explains I.
3. Both I and II are incorrect.
4. II is incorrect but I is correct.

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