Taxonomists

Question 1

He attempted to classify plants plants based on stem structure, the differences between monocots and dicots; he also wrote De
vegetabilis

Answer 1

Albertus Magnus

Question 2

He wrote the book Materia Medica which described 600 species of medicinal plants

Answer 2

Pedanios Dioscorides

Question 3

Regarded as the ‘Father of Botany’

Answer 3

Theophrastus

Question 4

He developed a system of classification based upon from relationships by grouping plants together which resembled to one another;
one significant botanical publication he also made is the Historia plantarum

Answer 4

John Ray

Question 5

He is best known for his work on the system of classification, Systema naturae

Answer 5

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 6

He is best known for his unsuccessful attempts to provide an explanation for the idea of evolution but a well-known taxonomists for
his treatment of the plant in France

Answer 6

Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu

Question 7

The philosophy of the natural system of classification in the scientific community was firmly established by him

Answer 7

Charles Bessey

Question 8

Published the three-volume Genera plantarun in 1862-1883 in Latin giving the names and descriptions of all genera of seed plants.

Answer 8

George Bentham & Sir Joseph

Dalton

Question 9

Published the Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien

Answer 9

Adolf Engler & Karl Prantl

Question 10

He published an intentionally phylogenetic taxonomic system based upon the principles of organic evolution

Answer 10

J.B.P. de Lamarck

Question 11

Made an excellent study of the comparative anatomy, embryology, habit and ecology which paved the good beginning of taxonomy

Answer 11

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 12

He considered species as ‘groups’ of interbreeding natural populations

Answer 12

Mayr

Question 13

He published the book Origin of Species Through Natural Selection

Answer 13

Charles Darwin

Question 14

He arranged animals from simpler to complex ones showing that the latter evolved from the former, and divided the animal kingdom
into 3 sections based on their mental capacities

Answer 14

Aristotle

Question 15

He is regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and an integral part of systematics

Answer 15

Cuvier

Question 16

He suggested creating a third kingdom Protista, although this was not very popular until relatively recently (sometimes also known
as Protoctista).

Answer 16

Ernest Haeckel

Question 17

The subsequent discovery that bacteria are radically different from other organisms in lacking a nucleus, led to the proposal of this
taxonomist a division of life into two empires: organisms with a nucleus in Eukaryota and organisms without in Prokaryota.

Answer 17

Chatton

Question 18

He recognized and proposed four kingdoms Monera, Protoctista, Plantae and Animalia

Answer 18

Copeland

Question 19

He is an American biologist who proposed the removal of fungi into a separate kingdom thus establishing a five-kingdom system
recognizing Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia as distinct kingdoms

Answer 19

Robert H. Whittaker

Question 20

They proposed the term superkingdom for domains and recognized two superkingdoms: Prokarya (Prokaryotae) and Eukarya
(Eukaryotae).

Answer 20

. Carl Woese et al.