Botany the Science of Plants encompasses aspects of the
study of all plants, including algae, mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering
plants, which may occur on land, in rivers and lakes and the oceans.
It includes aspects of plant distribution patterns, genetic
relationships, physiology and biochemistry, and plant interactions with each
other, animals and different environments.
Plant science has applications in a range of fields,
including biotechnology, environmental monitoring and nature conservation,
agriculture, and the food and pharmaceutical industries, and is therefore at an
interface with many other disciplines in the natural sciences.
Plants are an essential component of all ecosystems, and
Botany contributes significantly to the basic understanding of essential
processes that affect our ecosystems and natural environments.
Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines
including structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases,
chemical properties, and evolutionary relationships among taxonomic groups.
Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and
poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Nowadays,
botanists study about 400,000 species of living organisms.
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