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<p><font size="3"><strong>Botany</strong> is the scientific study of plantlifeplants. </font>&nbsp;<br /><br /><font size="3">As a branch of biology, it is also called <strong>plant science(s)</strong>, <strong>[[phytology]]</strong>, or <strong>plant biology</strong>. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including. Its research fields&nbsp;includs: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between the different groups. &nbsp;<br /><br />The study of plants and botany began with tribal lore, used to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms.</font></p>
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Scope and importance of botany</font></span></p>
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<p>As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical level through organelles, cells, tissues, organs, individuals, plant populations, and communities of plants. At each of these levels a botanist might be concerned with the classification (taxonomy), structure (anatomy), or function (physiology) of plant life.</p>
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<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 60px"><a class="external text" title="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PlantGrowth.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PlantGrowth.html"><font color="#0066cc"><br />
&nbsp;plant growth</font></a> and <a class="external text" title="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PlantCell.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PlantCell.html"><font color="#0066cc">the plant cell</font></a> from <a class="external text" title="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/" rel="nofollow" href="http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/"><font color="#0066cc">Kimball's Biology Pages</font></a> </div>
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<li>[http://plantome.org Plantome.org] </li>
<li>[http://plantomics.org Plantomics.org] </li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.botany.org/newsite/botany/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.botany.org/newsite/botany/"><font color="#0066cc">Botanical Society of America: What is Botany?</font></a> </li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/index.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/index.htm"><font color="#0066cc">Science and Plants for Schools</font></a> </li>
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