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- 2. A Swiss botanist who took on the enormous task of listing all plants known at the time.
- 6. Classified animals into two main groups with red blood and without. Also Classifying plants into three groups herbs shrubs and trees.
- 8. A Greek physician in the Roman army who grouped plants and natural materials useful inbthe treatment of disease in his work Materia Medica.
- 9. An English botanist his major contribution to taxonomy was the development of a classification system that grouped plants by the ways they looked alike not kn the basis of a single plant feature or of a plants use.
- 10. Noted the difference in flowering and non flowering plants. Classifying plants into four groups trees shrubs subshrubs and herbs.
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- 1. Father of Modern Taxonomy. He created binomial classification and how to classify plants by their flower structure. The stamen number in flowrs was the most significant in his system. His most important writings were Species Plantarum and Systema Naturae.
- 3. A Persian physician who compiled a Canon of Medicine.
- 4. An herbalists who wrote books with excellent illustrations called herbals which were helpful to anyone interested in identifying medical classifications of plants.
- 5. He was one of the first scientists of the Renaissance to use first hand observations of living plants to write plant descriptions.
- 7. Wrote about the medicinal and agricultural groupings of plants.