Intro to Plant Biology

Botany

The study of plants and their interactions with their environment

Parts of Science (for plants)

observation, recording, organization, classification

Plants domain

Eukarya

Plants Kingdom

Plantae

Species of plants that have been named so far

320,000

Things made from plants

Food, perfume, dye, beverages, lumber, paper, clothing, medicine, coal/oil, alternative energy sources

Ethnobotany

practical uses of plants and plant products

Agronomy

Study of crop plants

phytochemistry

study of chemical substances in plants

Paleobotany

study of plant fossils

Plant anatomy

internal structure of plants

plant physiology

plant function

plant taxonomy

describing, naming, and classifying plants

plant systematics

developing methods for classifying and naming plants

plant geography

plant distributions

Plant ecology

interactions between plants and their environments

plant morphology

form and structure of plants

science of heredity

potential development of better agricultural, medicinal and other useful plants