WHY CLASSIFICATION ?
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HISTORY OF TAXONOMY
ARISTOTLE
Father of Biology. Classified organisms with red blood cells and without.
THEOPHRASTUS
Father of Botany. Classified perennials and biennials.
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CHARAKAN
Father of Ayurveda. Treatise – charaka Samhita.
JOHN RAY
Used the term ‘species’ for first time. Book – Historia Generalis Plantarum
CARL LINNAEUS
Father of Modern Taxonomy. Proposed binomial nomenclature.
Who is the father of zoology ?
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TAXONOMIC HIERARCHY
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DIVERSITY IN NAMES
Papaya, kaplanga, karamusa, Omakka
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