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1. What is botany?
The science of plant life and a branch of biology
2. What is botany also known as?
Both
3. What is the scientist studying biology called?
Phytologist
4. What was botany formerly known as?
Herbalism
5. Why the study of plants is vital?
Because they underpin almost all animal life on Earth by generating a large proportion of the oxygen
6. What is plant biochemistry?
The study of chemical processes used by plants
7. What is the science of the functional relationship between plants and their habitats called?
Plant ecology
8. About how many species of land plants do the botanists study?
410,000
9. Where does modern botany have its roots?
Ancient Greece
10. Which plants are used to study the molecular biology of plant cells and the chloroplast?
Arabidopsis thaliana