Ch 11Science of Plants – Botany — Class 11 Botany, concept-first.

The word Botany did not arrive fully formed as a scientific label — it grew out of a much older, everyday relationship between people and plants.

Long before Botany was named as a Western science, ancient Indian scholars had already begun systematically recording plant knowledge.

Botany today covers an enormous range of topics — from fossils millions of years old to the internal chemistry of a living leaf — so no single approach can study all of it at once.

Botany is not confined to classrooms and laboratories — the knowledge it produces has direct, everyday application across several major fields.

Sample papers and previous-year board questions for this subject.