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What Is Botany

Botany is the scientific study of plants, including algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Botanists study many aspects of plants, such as their interactions with the environment and other organisms through ecology, discovering new species, how they grow under different conditions, their cellular structure using microscopes, how they convert chemicals and are genetically controlled. The results of botanical research are used to improve medicines, foods, fibers and more, as well as help conservation and environmental protection efforts.

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What Is Botany

Botany is the scientific study of plants, including algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Botanists study many aspects of plants, such as their interactions with the environment and other organisms through ecology, discovering new species, how they grow under different conditions, their cellular structure using microscopes, how they convert chemicals and are genetically controlled. The results of botanical research are used to improve medicines, foods, fibers and more, as well as help conservation and environmental protection efforts.

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What is Botany?

Botany is the scientific study of plants. "Plants," to most people, means a wide range of living
organisms from the smallest bacteria to the largest living things - the giant sequoia trees. By this
definition plants include: algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Today
scientists believe bacteria, algae and fungi are in their own distinct kingdoms, but most general
botany courses, and most Botany Departments at colleges and universities, still teach about these
groups.
Because the field is so broad, there are many kinds of plant biologists and many different
opportunities available. Botanists interested in ecology study interactions of plants with other
organisms and the environment. Other field botanists search to find new species or do experiments
to discover how plants grow under different conditions. Some botanists study the structure of plants.
They may work in the field, concentrating on the pattern of the whole plant. Others use microscopes
to study the most detailed fine structure of individual cells. Many botanists do experiments to
determine how plants convert simple chemical compounds into more complex chemicals. They may
even study how genetic information in DNA controls plant development. Botanists study processes
that occur on a time scale ranging from fractions of a second in individual cells to those that unfold
over eons of evolutionary time.
The results of botanical research increase and improve our supply of medicines, foods, fibers,
building materials, and other plant products. Conservationists use botanical knowledge to help
manage parks, forests, range lands, and wilderness areas. Public health and environmental
protection professionals depend on their understanding of plant science to help solve pollution
problems.

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