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[quote][/quote][quote][size=12pt]Hi all..
Let's talk about the specialties and career opportunities in botany...This plant science field is so broad and there are many specialization... Botanist interested in ecology study interaction of plants with other organisms and the environment, . other filed botanists search to find new species or perform experiments to discover how plant grow under different condition. Some botanist study the structure of plants, they may work in the field, concentrating on the pattern of the whole plant. Others use microscope to study the most detailed fine structure of individual cells..Many botanist conduct experiments to determine how plant convert simple chemical compounds into more complex chemicals...They also study how genetic information in DNA controls plant development and the process that occur on a time scale ranging from fractions of a second in individual cell to those that unfold over eons of the evolutionary time

The results of botanical research increase and improve our supply of medicine, foods, fibre, building materials and other plant products..
*Conservationist use botanical knowledge to help manage parks, forest, rangelands and wilderness area
*Public health and environmental protection professionals depend on their understanding of plant science to help solve solution problems.

So one of the most significant aspects of botany is the number of different specialties and career opportunities from which one can choose...(phycology, mycology, ecology, systematics, paleobotany, palynology, taxonomy, biotechnology, pathology, horticulture, physiology to molecular biology-DNA barcording)...
Among careers available to a person who enjoys the outdoors are positioned as an ecologist , taxonomist,cconservation





100lvl student from the department of botany, any advise pls on how relevant the course is especially in Nigeria today...what are the job opportunities available aside from teaching