HISTORY OF SYSTEMATICS Flashcards
EARLIEST: “____”:
FOLK TAXONOMY
(3) Three Pre-Linnaean:
Chinese, Romans and
Greeks
- Pre-Linnaean: Chinese, Romans and
Greeks
-Old language skill of mankind
-Names of edible, poisonous plant
EARLIEST: “FOLK TAXONOMY”:
one of the earliest disciplines of Botany
Plant taxonomy
essential in ethnobiological studies
Folk taxonomy
____plants aspects
are identified ox which 2,
____ are of
angiosperms
4,000,000
860,000
TAXONOMY IN BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT
- increased need for conservation of biological resources,
-biodiversity assessment during the last few years has increase
-taxonomic studies are being encouraged throughout the
world.
HISTORY OF TAXONOMY: PLANTS
Folk taxonomy
â—Ľcategorization of useful plants of folk
taxonomy
â—Ľdifferentiated them with reference
economic value = herbal taxonomy
EXPLORATORY PHASE: EARLY TAXONOMIC STUDIES
- Taxonomy was merely
exploration and naming
of species
-Emperor Shen Nung
(3000 BC)
-Medicinal plants were
illustrated on wall
paintings in Egypt (1500
BC)
-Aristotle (384–322 BC)
Greek philosopher
-Theophrastus (370-285
BC) published “Enquiry
into Plants.
-Dioscorides (40–90 AD)
-Pliny (23-29 AD)
oldest and largest ____,
____, plants are
included as medicines for
different diseases
papyrus rolls,
Ebers Papyrus
- first to classify all living things,
- the vertebrates and
invertebrates which he called
animals with blood and without
blood.
Aristotle
He proposed Crataegus,
Daucus, Asparagus and
Narcissus etc. in his work.
Theophrastus
wrote De Materia
Medica, which contained
around 600 species
medicinal plants
Dioscorides
wrote
160 volumes on Natural
history of which 37
volumes are present
Pliny
â—Ľ Emperor of China
â—Ľ List of medicinal plants
â—Ľ Introduced acupuncture
EMPEROR SHEN NUNG
EMPEROR SHEN NUNG introduced introduced _____
acupuncture
- Father of Agriculture and
Medicine in China - Divine Husbandman’s
Materia Medica included
365 medicines derived from
minerals, plants, and animals
EMPEROR SHEN NUNG
EMPEROR SHEN NUNG Divine Husbandman’s
____ included
___ medicines derived from
___, ___, and ____
Materia Medica
365
minerals, plants, and animals
The first classification system often broke plants down into three (3) groups, namely;
tress
shrubs
herbs
Elder’s, medical papyrus classified plants based on their ___
habits
Historia Animalium
History of animals
He classified animals with blood and animals without blood
ARISTOTLE
Animals with blood
Live-bearing (humans and
mammals)
Egg-bearing (birds and fish
Animals without blood
Insects
Shelled and non-shelled
crustaceans
Mollusks
-student of Aristotle and Plato
- Father of Botany
THEOPHRASTUS
- wrote a classification of all known plants,
De Historia Plantarum (480 species) and
De Causis Plantarum
THEOPHRASTUS
used for taxonomic purposes until the Middle
Ages in Europe
De Historia Plantarum (480 species) and
De Causis Plantarum
THEOPHRASTUS classification was based on
growth form –
annual, biennial, perennial
THEOPHRASTUS used ___ and ___ to group things
species and genus
Greek physician, pharmacologist,
botanist,
PEDANIUS DIOSCORIDES
___ a 5-volume Greek
encyclopedia about herbal medicine and
related medicinal substances
De materia medica
De materia medica —a 5-volume Greek
encyclopedia about
herbal medicine and
related medicinal substances
- widely read for more than 1,500 years
- used in medicine until the 16th
century, and was copied several
times
De materia medica
- Pliny the elder
â—Ľ Roman army, later in the Roman state.
â—Ľ wrote many books, the only one that has survived - Naturalis Historia
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS
- Pliny the elder
â—Ľ Roman army, later in the Roman state.
â—Ľ wrote many books, the only one that has survived - Naturalis Historia
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS
- Pliny the elder
â—Ľ Roman army, later in the Roman state.
â—Ľ wrote many books, the only one that has survived - Naturalis Historia
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS
The only book that was written by Gaius Plinius Secundus that has survived
Naturalis Historia
160 voumes, in which he described several
plants and gave them Latin names
â—Ľ Many names we still recognize, like Populus
alba and Populus nigra
Naturalis Historia
- Naturalis Historia has __ voumes in which he described several plants and gave them Latin names
160
â—Ľ Father of Botanical Latin - later kept for botanical
science
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS
â—Ľ Collecting and illustrating medicinal plants
â—Ľ Use of plant and plant extracts; not much
classification
HERBALISTS
TO DARWIN
â—Ľ More elaborate than previous works
â—Ľ Scientific increase, mild dissociation
HERBALISTS
TO DARWIN
Rise of book printing
HERBALISTS
TO DARWIN
theologian and botanist
Otto Brunfels
priest, physician, botanist
Hieronymus Bock
physician and botanist
Leonhart Fuchs ((1501-1566)
physician, naturalist
Peitro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501-1577)
physician, naturalist
William Turner (1508-1568)
physician, plant enthusiast
Matthias de L’Obel (1538-1616)
apprentice to a surgeon, herbalist
John Gerard (1545-1612)
doctor, botanist
Charles de L’Ecluse (1526-1609)
HERBALISTS TO DARWIN botanist, herbalist, and physicians
Otto Brunfels (1488-1534)
Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554)
Leonhart Fuchs ((1501-1566)
Peitro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501-1577)
William Turner (1508-1568)
Matthias de L’Obel (1538-1616)
John Gerard (1545-1612)
Charles de L’Ecluse (1526-1609)
Linnaeus later named plant groups to honor :
Brunfelsia, Mattiolia, Turnera,
Lobelia, Gerardia and Fuchsia.
EXPLORATORY PHASE : ______
ESTABLISHMENT OF HERBARIA
The first herbarium was established in ___
1553 in Padua (ITALY)
â—Ľ physician, extremely influential among his students and fellow botanists throughout Europe
Luca Ghini
â—Ľ founded the first botanical garden; first herbarium collection
â—Ľ Central method: careful observation and note taking was essential
Luca Ghini
careful observation and note taking was essential
Central method:
- The first herbarium was established in 1553 in Padua (ITALY)
- Luca Ghini
-Middle of 17th century, herbaria were established in different parts of the world
EXPLORATORY PHASE : ESTABLISHMENT OF HERBARIA
Middle of __century, herbaria were established in different parts of the world
17th
Ceasalipino (1519-1603)
Bauhin (1560-1624)
John Ray (1627-1705)
de Tournefort (1656-1708)
Pierre Belon
Linnaeus (1753) – Father of Taxonomy
EXPLORATORY PHASE: LINNEAN ERA
-they gave concept of species, synonymy, classification and nomenclature.
-defined species as a natural group of organisms with shared generalized or idealized patterns
shared
Ceasalipino, Bauhin, John Ray, de Tournefort
â—Ľ botanist, known for his comparative anatomical studies on skeletons of humans and birds
Pierre Belon
Pierre Belon is botanist, known for his comparative anatomical studies on _____
skeletons of humans and birds
â—Ľ published Species Plantarum
â—Ľ introduced binomial nomenclature
â—Ľ introduced sexual system in classification
â—Ľ artificial system on few characters.
Linnaeus (1753) – Father of Taxonomy
Linnaeus published____
Species Plantarum
Linnaeus introduced ___ and ___
binomial nomenclature ; sexual system in classification
“the first taxonomist”
-Rejected blind trust (prepositions, topdown)
ANDREA CESALPINO
____, a work that contained 1500
species
De Plantis
De Plantis is a work that contained 1500
species made by
ANDREA CESALPINO
Andrea Cesalpino groups of species
herbs and trees
Andrea Cesalpino plant families
Brassicaceae and
Asteraceae
Andrea Cesalpino Important criterion:
embryo, seed,
seedling
Andrea Cesalpino posteriori (inductive principle) :
observations, facts, past events
-Used FAMILY concept
-Used conspicuous characters of roots, stems and flowers
- Listed 76 families
PIERRE MAGNOL
PIERRE MAGNOL used conspicuous characters of
roots, stems and flowers
PIERRE MAGNOL listed __families
76 families
-physician, botanist
-Historia plantarum universalis (1650–51; “General History of
Plants”),
Jean Bauhin
Historia plantarum
universalis
“General History of
Plants
- elaborate descriptions
of more than 5,000
species
Historia plantarum
universalis