PLANT SCIENCE
The scientific study of plants, including their structure, genetics, ecology, classification, and economic importance.
BOTANY
The process plants use to make their own food by capturing light energy from the sun.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
HERBS
MERISTEMATIC CELLS
A career in which someone studies plant sciences.
HORTICULTURE
CELL
LOCAVORE
This covers the outside areas of a plant.
EPIDERMIS
A person who grows plants for food consumption or for landscaping purposes.
HORTICULTURIST
INTERIORSCAPING
ANNUAL
STOMATA
VITICULTURIST
This is the science or practice of planting, managing, restoring, and caring forests.
SILIVCULTURE
This organelle has its own genetic information, is responsible for a cell's survival and growth, and is responsible for respiration.
MITOCHONDRIA
A collection of grass plants that form ground cover.
TURFGRASS OR SOD
PERIDERM OR BARK
People dedicated to planting, managing, and caring for forests.
FORESTERS
The science, cultivation, processing, storage, and marketing of herbs and vegetables.
OLERICULTURE
A nucleotide found in the mitochondria and principal source of energy for cellular reactions.
ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE (ATP)
Farming or producing plant and animal products in ways that promotion the health of people, animals and the environment.
A living tissue that carries photosynthetic products synthesized in the chloroplasts throughout the plant.
PHLOEM
People who use grapes to make wine.
ENOLOGISTS