botany

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Specialists in zoology, ecology, and botany worked together to uncover how different species manage to survive there.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

First, a botany crash-course: You can’t just plant a seed from your favorite apple to grow more of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

“We’ve always been intrigued by overlap between plants and humans,” study coauthor Pradeep Kachroo, a botany professor at the University of Kentucky, told Salon in a video interview.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

He got into botany after wanting to save animals as a child and a brief spell as a model.

From BBC • May 24, 2024

Mendel had spent two years studying physics, chemistry, geology, botany, and zoology at the university in Vienna.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee