That vocational branch of biological science that embraces the study of plants and plant life, including algae; and it also deals with taxonomy, morphology, physiology, and other aspects of plant science:

While botany is the study of plants, it is divided into many areas including:

• Plant taxonomy, a description of plants and their arrangements into classes.
• Plant geography, the location of certain plants.
• Plant ecology, studies of the relationships between plants and the environment.
• Paleobotany, ancient plants.
• Phytopathology, plant diseases.
• Economic botany, how plants can be used as products.
• Plant morphology, the physical structure of plants:
• Physiology, the function of plant parts.
• Cytology, the study of plant cells and their parts.
• Anatomy and histology, the internal structure of plants.