← 1.2 Specimen Collection and Preservation
Wet and dry preservation
Biology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Choosing 70 percent ethanol or pinning and drying, and storing the result so it lasts.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Collecting specimens
- Processing and preserving specimens
- The collecting kit, piece by piece
- Improvising collecting apparatus
- Techniques for collecting plants
- Techniques for collecting animals
- Processing specimens for study
- Wet and dry preservation
- Staining specimens
- Labelling and field records
- Ethics of specimen collection
- Safety in the field and with preservatives
- A school field trip: collecting in practice
- Museums, herbaria and why we preserve