Branches of Botany as per the biological aspect are:
- Plant Anatomy
- Plant Morphology (deals with plant structure)
- Plant Genetics
- Plant Cell Biology/Cytology (scientific study of plant cells)
- Plant Ecology
- Plant Biochemistry
- Plant Biophysics
- Plant Taxonomy and Systematics, when asked what is systematics in botany, one can explain it as a subject that deals with the nomenclature, classification, description and correlation with evolutionary descent (relatives of near and distant past; deals with grouping of plants, grouped plants and natural history)
- Plant Biochemistry and Plant Physiology (deals with plant hormones, works around can use both living plant tissue and dead plant tissues)
- Plant Microbiology (how plants interact with microbes, types of microbes)
- Plant Genomics
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Paleobotany (the study of plant fossils)
- Ethnobotany, when asked what is ethno botany, one can explain it as a subject that deals with the ethnic knowledge of indigenous groups and cultures to utilize their plant wealth for various purposes
- Economic Botany
- Population genetics (deals with genetic inheritance in plant populations)
- Plant genetic engineering
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