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Because in early times the study of plant life dealt mainly with plants as food, it became known as botany, from a Greek word meaning "herb". The first people to specialize in the study of botany were primitive medicine men and witch doctors. They had WHAT IS BOTANY? ^^ know the plants that could kill or cure people. And botany was closely linked with medicine for hundreds of years. In the sixteenth century, people began to observe plants and write books about their observations. These writers were the "fathers" of modern botany. In the nineteenth century, the work of an English scientist, Charles Darwin, helped botanists gain a better understanding of how plants, as well as animals, evolved from simpler ancestors. His work led botanists to set up special branches of botany. One of these branches is "plant anatomy", which has to do with the structure of plants and how they might be related. Experiments on plant heredity were performed to find out how various species came to be and how they could be improved. This study is called "genetics". "Ecology", another branch of botany, deals with studies of the distribution of plants throughout the world, to find out why certain species grow in certain places. "Paleobotany", another branch, works out plant evolution from the evidence of fossil remains. Other branches of botany include "plant physiology", which studies the way plants breathe and make food, and "plant pathology", which is concerned with the study of plant diseases. According to the theories of science, there was a time when there were no plants on earth. Then, hundreds of millions of years ago, tiny specks of protoplasm appeared on the earth. Protoplasm is the name for the living WHERE DID material that is found in both plants PiAMTc r-rkR/ic animals. These original specks of PLANTS COME FROM ? protoplasm, according to This theory, were the beginnings of all our plants and animals. The protoplasm specks that became plants developed thick walls and settled down to staying in one place. They also developed a kind of green colouring matter known as "chlorophyll". This enabled them to make food from substances in the air, water and soil. These early green plants had only one cell, but they later formed