History of Botany

Question 1

a student of Aristotle
His major works include Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants, constitute the most important contributions to botanical science until the Middle Ages, almost seventeen centuries later.

Answer 1

Theophrastus

Question 2

authored a botanically and pharmacologically important herbal Historia Plantarum in 1544
Authored a pharmacopoeia of lasting importance, the Dispensatorium in 1546.

Answer 2

Valerius Cordus

Question 3

Ancient texts of botanical works from India in archaic Avestan writings

Answer 3

Ancient India

Question 4

published his Species Plantarum, a hierarchical classification of plant species that remains the reference point for modern botanical nomenclature in 1753.
He is considered as the father of taxonomy.

Answer 4

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 5

“botanical gardens” were founded in a number of Italian universities
the Padua botanical garden (Orto botanico di Padova) in 1545 is usually considered to be the first which is still in its original location

Answer 5

Italians

Question 6

A Greek physician and pharmacologist
wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine in the middle of the first century

Answer 6

Pedanius Dioscorides

Question 7

Co-founded the cell theory and was among the first to grasp the significance of the cell nucleus

Answer 7

MATTHIAS SCHLEIDEN, THEODOR SCHWANN

Question 8

Wrote the first modern botanical textbook Grundzüge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany

Answer 8

Matthias Schleiden

Question 9

Proposed the gene-chromosome theory of heredity
Regarded as the father of Genetics

Answer 9

Gregor Mendel