Botany is the scientific study of plants, which are distinguished from other life forms by their ability to produce their own food through photosynthesis. Knowledge of plants is important because humans depend on plants as primary producers in ecosystems and as sources of food, since plants provide much of the world's food either directly through fruits and vegetables or indirectly through livestock that consume plant matter.

1. What is botany?
 The scientific study of plants

2. What is a plant?
 What distinguishes a
plant from other forms of
life?

4. Why is knowledge of
plants important?
 We are dependent on plants

5. Plants are producers

6. Plants as a food source

7. Plants as a food source