Chapter 1: What is Plant Biology?

Explain how humans have impacted their environment, particularly during the past century

Drained Wetlands, Clearing of Natural Vegetation, Waste, Pollution, Pesticide and herbicide, plastic waste, meat industry, etc.

Explain how and why all life is dependent upon green organisms

Plants and animals are symbiotic; they produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide, and they also provide food, clothing and medicine.

Plant cell biology

Structures, functions, and life processes of plant cells

Plant Anatomy

The study of Plant structure

Plant Physiology

The study of a plants functions

Plant Geography

The study of how and why plants are distributed where they are

plant morphology

The study of the form and structure of plants

The father of Botanical Science

Theophrastus

economic botany

study of economic importance of plants

Ethnobotany

study of how various cultures use plants

Plant Genetics

study of plant heredity and variation

Plant Taxonomy

the study of the identification, description, classification, and evolutionary relationships of plants

plant ecology

the study of the interactions between plants and the environment