Question

The father of botany is
A) Theophrastus
B) Brunfels
C) C.Linnaeus
D) O.Tippo

Answer 1

Hint: The study of plant life is known as botany. The botanical science includes the study of structure, properties, life processes, classifications and diseases of the plants.

Complete Answer:
A) Since plant life is so fundamental to human existence, people have been researching plant life since the beginning. Theophrastus was a Greek philosopher who lived roughly 2300 years ago. He is known as the father of botanical science. In the Peripatetic school, he was the successor to Aristotle. He was a well-known scholar, botanist, biologist, and physicist. He wrote many books and very famous among them were Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants. They were the major knowledge resources for botanical science during the Middle age. Due to which, he was known as “father of botany”.

B) Otto Brunfels was born near Mainz, Germany in the year 1488 or 1489. He worked as a monk in a Carthusian monastery at Strasbourg. Later became a teacher and got more interest in botany. In his spare time, Brunfels worked on the book and planned it to be used by academics. The herbal was grouped through Brunfels by medicinal usage of the plant. He used the traditional German names of the trees, which was a new concept.

C) Carolus Linnaeus was a Swedish naturalist. He was the first person to frame principles which defined the natural genera and species of any organism. He created a uniform system of naming known as binomial nomenclature. So, he was known as the father of Taxonomy.

D) Oswald Tippo was an American botanist who suggested the highest phylogenetic grouping in the plant kingdom. He split the whole plant kingdom into two main groups, namely Thallophyta and Embryophyta.

The correct answer is option A, Theophrastus.

Note: Theophrastus also created his own terminology to describe plant processes and horticultural and agricultural practices. He concentrated more about the several varieties of rare and unspecified plants.