Botany credentials demonstrate earners' understanding of plant structure, function, and classification as well as how plants are impacted by humans and how humans can use plants and plant products. Entry-level botanists must have earned at least a bachelor’s degree. Higher-level botany professionals generally require a higher degree, such as a master’s degree or Ph.D. Educational institutions higher botanists as teachers or researchers and their assistants. Botanists may specialize in plant anatomy, biochemistry, biophysics, cytology, ecology, genetics, molecular biology, morphology, paleobotany, plant physiology, systematic, systems ecology, or taxonomy. They may also work in fields such as agronomy, biotechnology, plant breeding, economic botany, food science and technology, forestry, horticulture, natural resource management, and plant pathology. Botanists may also specialize in the type of organism they study. Specifically, 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.
