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Ecology vs Botany - What's the difference?

ecology | botany |

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

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
  • * 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert M. Pringle , title=How to Be Manipulative , volume=100, issue=1, page=31 , magazine= citation , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

    Derived terms

    * agroecology * autecology * chemical ecology * dendroecology * ecology block * ethnoecology * geoecology * hydroecology * macroecology * myrmecology * palaeoecology * paleoecology * photoecology * radioecology * restoration ecology * social ecology * socioecology * synecology

    botany

    English

    (wikipedia botany)

    Noun

  • (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.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * botanically * botanist * botanize * Botany Bay