Botany
Botany Botany, branch of biology concerned with the study of plants ( kingdom Plantae ). Plants are now defined as multicellular organisms that carry out photosynthesis . Organisms that had previously been called plants, however, such as bacteria, algae, and fungi, continue to be the province of botany, because of their historical connection with the discipline and their many similarities to true plants, and because of the practicality of not fragmenting the study of organisms into too many separate fields. Botany is concerned with all aspects of the study of plants, from the smallest and simplest forms to the largest and most complex, from the study of all aspects of an individual plant to the complex interactions of all the different members of a complicated botanical community of plants with their environment and with animals (see Ecology ). See also Historcal Development ; Classical Studies . related articles: plant breeding botanical garden diseases of plants floriculture , grow...