Sentence examples for preserved plants from inspiring English sources
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Some "Mazon Creek" localities are known for terrestrial fossils, including beautifully preserved plants and, rarely, insects, centipedes and millipedes, scorpions and other arachnids, and even small amphibians.
Some 3.5 million of those objects are "press sheets" — dried and preserved plants mounted on stiff white paper and meticulously labeled with information about when and where they were found.
In essence, a herbarium is analogous to a library of carefully preserved plants where the specimens themselves and the labels associated with them provide a wealth of information once they have been "read" and studied by scientists.
By analyzing the preserved plants in these ancient dens, ecologists and paleontologists can reconstruct plant communities and climate over the last 40,000 years in the southwestern United States.
The facility, renovated over the summer to house the collection, is temperature- and humidity-controlled, keeping away insects and mold, two major enemies of preserved plants.
It also has an herbarium containing some 695,000 preserved plant specimens for reference purposes.
To locate new terpene-making genes, in May of this year Agapakis and colleagues scoured the archives of the Harvard University Herbarium, which houses more than five million preserved plant specimens.
The fourth floor of Mann Library on campus houses the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Herbarium, a collection of more than a million dried and preserved plant specimens.
Along with more than seven million preserved plant specimens, they are hidden away in the Herbarium of Kew Gardens, which sits largely unnoticed beside the sprawling botanic garden that attracts a million visitors each year.
These observations indicated that most of the preserved, planted populations of P. thunbergii possess regional genetic variation, but some populations were developed from seed pools derived from other regions, possibly through distribution by ship along the Japan Sea.
