About the Study of Flowers and Plants

If you are interested in plants and flowers, wherey the came from, how they grow and about individual species of plants, you may spend your time studying them. While studying plants and flowers is a great hobby, it can also be done professionally.

The study of flowers and plants is a part of biology in which scientists study plant life. It is commonly known as botany. Other names for the study of flowers and plants is plant science and plant biology. In botany, more than 400,000 known plants are studied and it is one of the first sciences known to human kind.

Two areas in which plants and flowers are studied include the study of plant cells and tissues called physiology and the study of plant history through fossils called paleobotany. Diseases in plants are also studied. This is called pathology. The growth, structure and reproduction of plants and flowers are looked at along with the development and metabolism of plants. Through these different studies, every aspect of a plant is researched and categorized.

The people who study plants and flowers are called botanists. Botanists can generally study plants and flowers or they can specialize in a certain area like biophysics, anatomy, cytology, genetics and ecology. Other areas of study are systematics, molecular biology and taxonomy. For those who prefer an applied science, or working directly with plants and flowers, careers in food and science technology, horticulture, natural resource management and foresetry might be a more satisfying job. Other specialties include exploration and education of plants and flowers.