As botany is a science, it always involves experiments in the laboratory, analyzing the plant cells under the microscope and studying plants structures and classifying them. It also often involves outdoors and field trips. In your college, the laboratory for natural sciences would often have lesser units than your lecture and depending on how it is being arranged by your school, the schedules may not be straight - lecture and laboratory.
It’s a tedious thing but it pays to learn about plants because we basically depend on them for survival as explained in the ecosystem’s cycle. And if you have learned your botany religiously then you have done your preparation for the real job you’ll be in.
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