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THE SCIENCE OF PLANT MORPHOLOGY: DEFINITION, HISTORY AND ROLE IN MODERN BIOLOGY
Purpose of the study: It was clearly stated in the abstract that in this study or in this article, it attempt to clarify the plant morphology and its concept, review its historical heritage and discusses, how it differs and relates in systematics. It also shows that plant morphology as a scientific discipline and any predictions can be made out unknown. The title in this article is quite clear and clearly clarifies in the abstract the purpose of the study.

In the introduction, Dohan R. Kaplan2 plainly said that the plant morphology is not that so familiar science or unknown. It was just the only tool of science is its tradition and definition. This principle reasons pushes Dohan R. Kaplan2 to study more about the plant morphology, for us to know more about the different structures, and the different general principle of the said topic.

It was also stated in the article that the plant morphology in the Anglo-Americans is quite microscopic. It was more on technologies, the emphasis is more on microscopic without even observing its external or its natural habit and the life histories expressed more on taxonomical framework. Unlike the in the Anglo-Americans, plant morphology in german which was the study of forms was based on the external morphology.

In this statement I can say that because of these different techniques used to study about plant morphology, this pushes Dohan to study more about using this techniques to clearly clarify its true value, from external morphology up to its cytological morphology.

HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF PLANT MORPHOLOGY This brief account of the history of plant morphology focuses less on dates and discoveries and more on the most on influential figures, their contribution to the discipline, and the impact their different attitudes and emphases had on the different directions the science took during its history. German plant morphology has had only four principal figures that were

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