Taxonomists Flashcards
He attempted to classify plants plants based on stem structure, the differences between monocots and dicots; he also wrote De
vegetabilis
Albertus Magnus
He wrote the book Materia Medica which described 600 species of medicinal plants
Pedanios Dioscorides
Regarded as the ‘Father of Botany’
Theophrastus
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
John Ray
He is best known for his work on the system of classification, Systema naturae
Carolus Linnaeus
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
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
The philosophy of the natural system of classification in the scientific community was firmly established by him
Charles Bessey
Published the three-volume Genera plantarun in 1862-1883 in Latin giving the names and descriptions of all genera of seed plants.
George Bentham & Sir Joseph
Dalton
Published the Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien
Adolf Engler & Karl Prantl
He published an intentionally phylogenetic taxonomic system based upon the principles of organic evolution
J.B.P. de Lamarck
Made an excellent study of the comparative anatomy, embryology, habit and ecology which paved the good beginning of taxonomy
Carolus Linnaeus
He considered species as ‘groups’ of interbreeding natural populations
Mayr
He published the book Origin of Species Through Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
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
Aristotle
He is regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and an integral part of systematics
Cuvier
He suggested creating a third kingdom Protista, although this was not very popular until relatively recently (sometimes also known
as Protoctista).
Ernest Haeckel
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.
Chatton
He recognized and proposed four kingdoms Monera, Protoctista, Plantae and Animalia
Copeland
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
Robert H. Whittaker
They proposed the term superkingdom for domains and recognized two superkingdoms: Prokarya (Prokaryotae) and Eukarya
(Eukaryotae).
. Carl Woese et al.
