What is Botany ?

We know that botany is defined as the scientific study of plants. But older classifications were not very accurate and superficial characteristic features were often used to classify plants. Hence, it included a whole range of plant-like organisms such as algae, lichens, ferns, fungi, mosses along with actual plants.

But today, we know that fungi and lichens are classified under their own kingdom – Kingdom Fungi. And similarly, algae are classified under Kingdom Protista. Multi-cellular algae are structurally simple when compared to plants hence, they are classified under Protista even though they have chlorophyll.

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