Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On the study of things

In botany, algology is the scientific study of algae. It is also referred to as phycology. It is a sub-discipline of botany since algae are more closely related to plants rather than other groups, such as animals.

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Dendrochronology is the science that deals with the dating and study of the annual growth increments, or tree rings, in woody trees and shrubs.

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Bernhard Naunyn, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and Rudolf Buchheim were the founders of pharmacology. The birth of pharmacology took place in Tartu (Dorpat), Estonia.

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Limnology is the study of inland waters – lakes (both freshwater and saline), reservoirs, rivers, streams, wetlands, and groundwater – as ecological systems interacting with their drainage basins and the atmosphere.

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A zymurgist is a scientist who studies the chemical process of fermentation in brewing and distilling.

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