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Parent topics
- Agriculture [r]: The process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Health sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Subdisciplines of Botany
- Agronomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bryology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ethnobotany [r]: The science that studies how plants are used in various cultures. [e]
- Forestry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Horticulture [r]: An agricultural discipline concerned with the growing of garden plants. [e]
- Mycology [r]: The branch of microbiology concerned with the study and effects of fungi [e]
- Paleobotany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phycology [r]: The academic discipline involving the study of algae. [e]
- Phytochemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant anatomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant ecology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant morphology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant pathology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant physiology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant systematics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plant taxonomy [r]: Add brief definition or description
General
- Botanist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Botanical journals [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Botanical societies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Botanical gardens [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). [e]
- Astrobiology [r]: The study of life in the universe. [e]
- Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
- Biodiversity [r]: The study of the diversity of life. [e]
- Biogeography [r]: The study of patterns of species distribution and the processes that result in such patterns. [e]
- Bioinformatics [r]: The study of (usually molecular) biological systems by computational means. [e]
- Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
- Cell biology [r]: The study of the components of cells and their interactions. [e]
- Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
- Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. [e]
- Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
- Endocrinology [r]: The study of glands and the hormonal regulation of physiology. [e]
- Ethology [r]: The scientific study of animal behavior. [e]
- Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- History of biology [r]: The study of the development of knowledge and methodology in the study of life. [e]
- Immunology [r]: The study of all aspects of the immune system in all animals. [e]
- Marine biology [r]: The study of life in the seas and oceans. [e]
- Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). [e]
- Molecular biology [r]: The study of molecular interactions within cells. [e]
- Morphology [r]: The study of biological structure. [e]
- Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. [e]
- Palaeontology [r]: The study of extinct life forms, particularly fossils. [e]
- Population biology [r]: The study of life at the species level. [e]
- Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
- Synthetic biology [r]: The study of artificial life forms. [e]
- Systematics [r]: The study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and how they relate via evolution. [e]
- Systems biology [r]: The study of biological systems as a whole. [e]
- Taxonomy [r]: The principles underlying classification, often in a hierarchy. [e]
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. [e]
- Virology [r]: The study of viruses, sometimes included in the field of microbiology. [e]
- Zoology [r]: The scientific study of animals. [e]
