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Botany is the study of plant life. In early times people studied plants because they were important as food. Then primitive medicine men became interested in botany. They had to know the plants that could kill people or help them. And that was the situation with botany and medicine for hundreds of years.
In the sixteenth century people began to write books about plants. Those writers were the “fathers” of modern botany. In the nineteenth century, the English scientist Charles Darwin studied plant and animal forms and his work helped botanists to get a better understanding of how plants as well as animals developed.
1. People have been studying plant life since long ago.
2. The word “botany” comes from a Greek word.
3. Botany has always been a part of medicine.
4. People wrote books about plants in ancient times.
5. Charles Darwin was interested in plant and animal species.