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Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is ... called [P]lant science(s), phytology, or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between the different groups. The study of plants and botany began with tribal lore, used to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms.
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B[O]tany is the study of plants. Botanical terms and concepts are the groundwork for understanding plant health, care and classification. When answering questions, Master Gardeners must know how various plant parts affect plant health, which parts are used for food and which parts are used to produce new plants. Knowing the names of plant parts and the terms used for grouping plants links Master Gardeners to the universal language used by gardeners and horticulturists.
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Botany does not depend on the fossil record for information concerning evolution and classification as much as does zoology, because the record for plants is much less complete than that for animals. Nevertheless, paleobotany, the study of fossil plants, has contributed greatly to the overall understanding of the evolution of the major groups of plants and especially to understanding of the interrelationships among the classes of seed plants. But much remains to be learned before fundamental questions such as the origin of the flowering plants (see Angiosperm) can be answered.
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Fundamentals of Botany as observed during field trips. Trips will be preceded by lectures and exercises designed to prepare the student for maximizing the learning experience in the field. The course involves extensive pre- and post-trip exercises and evaluation.
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Sydney Airport's conventional radar has ever increasing coverage limitations caused by obstructions from commercial development activities around the airport and the adjacent Port Botany container terminal. The new Sensis system, with its enhanced coverage, will assist with resolving those problems for the Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) part of the system.
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Fifteen metres below ground, between Orica and Botany Bay, a toxic ’slug’ of chlorinated hydrocarbons is oozing its way through the groundwater at 130 metres a year. The leading edge of the plume surrounding this ‘slug’ may have already arrived at the Bay.
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