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Who discovered taxonomy?


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Taxonomy:

  1. The term taxonomy was coined by A. P. de Candolle.
  2. One of the earliest attempts to classify plants was done by Aristotle, who divided plants into herbs, shrubs and trees.
  3. Taxonomy is the branch of science that deals with the study of classifying organisms.
  4. Classical taxonomy deals with the classification of species in which species are considered the basic unit.
  5. In this, an organism is classified into domains, kingdoms, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. In this, the organism is classified using both morphology and phylogeny.

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