Botany Collection

In my internship, we have been doing cataloging with the specimens that are collected from different places. This helps scientists use these plants as part of an experiment and the evidence they get is based on the cataloging we have been doing. We have conserved, mounted plants, and we have been data basing them. I have found out that these steps are important to getting the bigger pictures. These collections provide so much information for us to expand on, such as, Dr. Sweeney's research question. His question question has to do with plant systematic, which is the taxonomy of plants. He is mainly focusing on the evolution of plants and since the prehistoric times. A way Juhi and I help him is by doing these processes so he can see how evolution affected plants.