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  2. Branches of botany - Wikipedia

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    Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...

  3. Plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    The Takhtajan system and Cronquist system treat them as a division (Magnoliophyta). [citation needed] The Dahlgren system and Thorne system (1992) treat them as a class (Magnoliopsida). The APG system of 1998, and the later 2003 [7] and 2009 [8] revisions, treat the flowering plants as an unranked clade without a formal Latin name (angiosperms ...

  4. Division (taxonomy) - Wikipedia

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    Division is a taxonomic rank in biological classification that is used differently in zoology and in botany. In botany and mycology, division is the traditional name for a rank now considered equivalent to phylum. The use of either term is allowed under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. [1]

  5. Botany - Wikipedia

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    Divisions related to the broader historical sense of botany include bacteriology, mycology (or fungology) and phycology - the study of bacteria, fungi and algae respectively - with lichenology as a subfield of mycology. The narrower sense of botany in the sense of the study of embryophytes (land plants) is disambiguated as phytology.

  6. Outline of botany - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, the biological academic discipline involving the study of plants. Core concepts. Bud;

  7. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species. In addition, domain (proposed by Carl Woese ) is now widely used as a fundamental rank, although it is not mentioned in any of the nomenclature codes, and is a synonym for dominion ( Latin : dominium ), introduced by Moore in 1974.

  8. Category:Branches of botany - Wikipedia

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    Branches of botany — branches and subfields of botanical research, study, and taxonomy; Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 ...

  9. Phylum - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants accepts the terms as equivalent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom Animalia contains about 31 phyla, the plant kingdom Plantae contains about 14 phyla, and the ...