Question

Who is regarded as the father of systemic botany?
(a) Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
(b) Linnaeus
(c) Engler and Prantl
(d) Hutchinson

Answer 1

Hint: He was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He published a book named Systema Naturae.

Complete answer:
Carl Linnaeus, also referred to as Carl von Linne or Linnaeus, is named the father of systemic botany. His system of naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is in wide use today. He devised the formal two-part naming system. Throughout his career, Linnaeus described approximately 13000 life forms and organized them into suitable categories. Linnaeus hierarchical classification and binomial nomenclature, greatly modified, have continued standard for the past 200 years. His works are studied through each generation of naturalists.
Systematic Biology (hereafter called simply systematics) is the field that
1. Provides scientific names for organisms,
2. Describes them,
3. Preserves collections of them,
4. Gives classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their numbers,
5. Investigates their evolutionary histories, and
6. Consider their environmental adaptations.
The term "taxonomy" was coined by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. He gave the De Candolle system which is a system of plant taxonomy. Adolf Engler (1844-1930) Professor of Botany at Berlin University adopted the main characteristics of Eichler‘s classification and with Karl Prantl (1849-1893) wrote Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien in 1909. This system of classification was introduced by John Hutchinson (1884-1970) and is the famously understood and admitted phylogenetic system of classification.

So, the correct answer is ‘Linnaeus’.

Note:
The word systematics is derived from the Latin word `systema', which means the systematic arrangement of organisms. Carl Linnaeus used 'Systema Naturae' as the title of his book. Biological systematics is the education of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationship between living things through time.