Botany

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the various metabolic processes that occur in plants, explain the chemical and physical bases of life including the related terms associated with living organisms, describe the structure and function of plant meristems and non-meristematic tissues.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the structure, function, and processes associated with DNA and plant genetics, explain the various methods used in plant breeding and propagation including the use and purposes of related biotechnologies, and discuss the major theories, evidence, and concepts associated with evolution.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how water moves through a plant and transports nutrients, explain the various metabolic processes that occur in plants, describe the requirements and processes allowing plant growth and development including associated terms processes, hormones, nutrients, and responses to the environment, explain the plant meiosis and alternation of generations.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the classification systems used to organize and identify plants, describe bacteria in terms of forms, differences from eukaryotes, nutrition, bacterial uses to humans, bacteria harmful to humans, and differentiate between major bacterial groups, and describe the Kingdom Protista in terms of similarities and differences of members, form and function of members, classification, and economical importance , discuss the Plant Kingdom and bryophytes in terms of how members are different from each other and distinguishing structures, functions, processes, and uses of bryophytes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe plant roots including the structure, function, types of specialized roots, uses of roots, and development, describe the important characteristics and components of soil to the growth of plants , describe plant stems in terms of tissue structure and function, different types and compositions, related structures, and uses, describe plant leaves in terms of forms and parts, functions, different types, change in color, and how they help in classification of families of plants, describe plant flowers, fruits, and seeds in terms of structure, function, types, relationship to environmental conditions, uses, and how they help in the classification of families of plants, describe plant flowers, fruits, and seeds in terms of structure, function, types, relationship to environmental conditions, uses, and how they help in the classification of families of plants.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe seedless vascular plants in terms of distinguishing characteristics of members, differences in life cycles, structural features, important uses, and related terms , describe seed plants in terms of differences from other plants, classification, distinguishing features of members, general life cycle, structures, functions, uses, and related terms , describe angiosperms in terms of differences from other plants, life cycle, structure and function, pollination strategies, specialization, and related terms , describe flowering plants and cultivation, including regions of cultivation, characteristics of flowering plant families, structure and function, and related terms , describe the relationships among populations, communities, and ecosystems including roles of different plants and animals, energy flow, the nitrogen and carbon cycles, primary and secondary succession, eutrophication, and adverse effect of human behavior , describe the major biomes of the world including the characteristics and living members of each , describe the major biomes of the world including the characteristics and living members of each.