As a course, botany is the study of plants and many other groups in the tree of life. With regard to organisms, this course begins with the Cyanobacteria, winds through several groups of unrelated or...As a course, botany is the study of plants and many other groups in the tree of life. With regard to organisms, this course begins with the Cyanobacteria, winds through several groups of unrelated organisms that were all once categorized as fungi, picks apart pieces of the "protista," and finally emerges into Kingdom Plantae.
