Chapter 1: What is Plant Biology?

science

A search for knowledge of the natural world

botanists

Scientists who study plants

hypothesis

a tentative, unproven explanation for something that has been observed

plant taxonomy

describing, naming, and classifying organisms

economic botany/ ethnobotany

focus on practical uses of plants and plant products

genomics

focuses on genes and their functions

plant morphology

study of the form and structure of plants

plant anatomy

the internal structure of plants

cell biology (cytology)

the science of cell function and structure

plant systematics

the science of developing methods for grouping organisms

genetics

the science of heredity

plant geography

the study of how and why plants are distributed the way they are

botany

the study of plants

plant ecology

the study of the interaction of plants with one another and their environments