herbarium specimens

Question 1

definition of herbarium

Answer 1

collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data for scientific study

Question 2

how are herbarium specimens prepared?

Answer 2

mounted in dried form on a sheet of paper, or kept in boxes, stored in alcohol or other preservatives

Question 3

how are herbarium specimens stored?

Answer 3

stored systematically, by family, genus, species and geographically

Question 4

what are herbarium specimens used for?

Answer 4

reference materials in taxonomy, plant identification and research, studying plant morphology, seasonal variations, type specimens, paleobotany and gene sequencing, habitats and diversity, anthropocene

Question 5

why are species like Terminalia bentzoe and Madagascar periwinkle so important?

Answer 5

provides us with novel medicine, madagascar periwinkle provides us with anticancer drugs

Question 6

why is scent important?

Answer 6

scent is a composite of many chemical compounds

many scents can be synthesized in the lab

Question 7

how are scents brewed from an extinct plant?

Answer 7

using a herbarium specimen, perform paleogenomics which is sequencing ancient genomes to locate genes associated with scent production. compounds are then identified that would produce the aroma and those genes are then cloned and vectors are transformed into Baker’s yeast