Q. The special techniques for collection and preservation of specimens are required in

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A museum is a place used to store, preserve, and exhibition objects of the natural history of both plants and animals. All universities and educational institutions maintain museums for both plant and animal specimens. The preserved specimens that are kept in museums are like the mosses, ferns, fungi, algae, parts of gymnosperms, fruits and storage organs of animals in a preservative solution is made of alcohol and formalin.
A herbarium is a place where a collection of plants and specimens are pressed, mounted on paper sheets, adequately labelled and systematically kept for study in steel cabinets.
Botanical gardens are a large area where different kinds of plants are grown and maintained for scientific and educational purposes. The botanical garden provides facilities, seeds and living materials to various research centres, and it acts as an ex situ conservation centre of endangered species.
Zoological parks are the areas where many kinds of living animals are kept so that people can look at them or study them. The main objective of zoos is that it is one of the ex-situ conservation techniques where the breeding of rare fauna is done. It is also a public recreation and education place where the exhibition of animals is done and allows us to understand wildlife.