What do Botany and Plant Science students learn?
Botany students are concerned with all aspects of plants, including their classification and identification, physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, genetics and evolution. They study how plants interact and shape their environments, and the interaction between other living things (including humans) and plants. Agriculture-based plant science programs focus more on plants as a sustainable resource, and may encompass such topics as horticulture, crop science, agricultural economics and law, and the growing field of biotechnology (including genetic modification). Eventually, botanists may choose to specialize in a wide range of subdisciplines, such as cell and molecular biology, ecology, mycology, plant pathology, phycology, physiology and biochemistry, structure and development, phytogeography, and paleobotany. Why Study Plants? is an interesting page describing the importance of plants to human endeavour. http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plant_Biology/Why_Plants.
