Alex is a phd student. her dissertation explores the impact of development on the indigenous flora and fauna of the most remote areas of the rain forests. alex is studying

Alex is studying Botany, based from the type of dissertation that she is making on the indigenous flora and fauna of most remote areas within the rain forests. Botany is the scientific study of plants which includes the study of algae, lichens, ferns, flowering plants, conifers, and mosses. It is an in depth study that deals with the largest species of plants to the smallest plant-organisms that thrive in a particular ecosystem. 

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