IMMUNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: –But the classification starts with Aristotle as mentioned above. He is the first scientist who organized the living things or gave the idea of taxonomy; the science of grouping living organisms. He developed the first classification system that divides the organisms into animals and plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle was the first scientist who attempted to classify organisms. He subdivided plants into three groups: shrubs, herbs and trees. He subdivided animals into their habitat: air, water and land.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle developed the first system of classification of animals. He based his classification system off of observations of animals, and used physical characteristics to divide animals into two groups, and then into five genera per group, and then into species within each genus.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle classified living organisms based on their ability to move from one place to another or locomote. This gave rise to two groups, plants which are non-motile and animals which are motile.

Detailed explanation-5: -Today is the 290th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world’s plants and animals.

Detailed explanation-6: -But Taxonomy’s first father was the philosopher Aristotle, he first introduced the two key concepts of taxonomy: classification of organisms by type and binomial definition. Therefore founder of taxonomy is Aristotle.