Ecology vs Botany - What's the difference?
ecology | botany |
The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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(uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.
The plant life, or the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
(countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
As nouns the difference between ecology and botany
is that ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other while botany is the scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve the whole plant.ecology
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(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
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