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Botany, plant science(s), or plant biology (from Ancient Greek βοτάνη botane, "pasture, grass, or fodder" and that from βόσκειν boskein, "to feed or to graze"), a discipline of biology, is the science of plant life. Traditionally, the science included the study of fungi, algae, and viruses.
Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines including structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, chemical properties, and evolutionary relationships among taxonomic groups. Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Nowadays, botanists study about 400,000 species of living organisms.
The beginnings of modern-style classification systems can be traced to the 1500s-1600s when several attempts were made to scientifically classify plants. In the 19th and 20th centuries, major new techniques were developed for studying plants, including microscopy, chromosome counting, and analysis of plant chemistry. In the last two decades of the 20th century, DNA was used to more accurately classify plants.
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This royal beast
Destroyer of great cities in revenge
Dead and forgotten by the world
Now planted again
Taking mutated root
in the great gardens
of the Botanist
Awaiting his word
To strike out in anger
Threaten the human race,
Besiege their precious cities
Lay waste to their flesh and blood
With giant hogweed hairs.
"Blind their eyes
Disrupt the nucleus
Lay waste to flesh and blood
You royal beast
Destroyer of great cities in revenge
You are my warriors now,
And my word is anger."