Question
Scientists and their contribution for taxonomy.

Answer

  1. Ecosystem – A.G. Tansley, 1935
  2. Biodiversity – Walter Rosen, 1985
  3. Taxonomy – AP de Candolle
  4. Father of Taxonomy (classical) – Aristotle
  5. Father of modem taxonomy, Founder of modem systematics – Carolus Linnaeus
  6. Aristotle – Historia Animalium
  7. Theophrastus – Father of Botany
  8. Species – John Ray (1627 – 1708)
  9. Five kingdom classification – R.H. Whittaker (1969)
  10. Three domain classification – Carl Woese (1977)
  11. Seven kingdom classification – Cavalier- Smith (1987)
  12. Binomial nomenclature – Carolus Linnaeus
  13. John Ray – Methodus Plantarum Nova and Historia Generalis Plantarum
  14. Trinomial nomenclature – Huxley and Stricklandt
  15. Charles Darwin – Origin of species
  16. Ernst Haeckel – Cladogram

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