Let’s familiarise ourselves with some scientists who have made valuable contributions in the history of taxonomy. Aristotle (Greece) The Father of Biology. He classified organisms as those with red blood cells and those without red blood cells. Theophrastus (Greece) The Father of Botany. He classified plants into annuals, biennials and perennials. (B.C. 384-322) (B.C. 371-287) Charakan (India) The Father of Ayurveda. He wrote the treatise Charaka Samhita by including in it around 200 plants and animals. John Ray (England) Recorded more than 18000 plants in the book ‘ Historia Generalis Plantarum Used the term ‘species’ for the first time. A.D. 1 st century (A.D.
1627-1705) Carl Linnaeus (Sweden) The Father of Modern Taxonomy. Suggested the taxonomic hierarchy. Proposed binomial nomenclature, the scientific naming method for organisms. (AD. 1707-1778) Taxonomic hierarchy proposed by Linnaeus Kingdom Species Phylum Genus Class Family Order Family Order Class Genus Species Phylum Illustration 12.2 Kingdom Basic Science VIII 171