In this article we will discuss about the cradle of flowering plants in India. The studies on Indian plants were first initiated by European visitors, endrik Van Rheede (1678-1703) Published 12 volumes of Hortus Malabaricus. Even before the publication of Species plantarum by Linnaeus (1753). Work on Indian flora was initiated by Roxburgh (1814, 1820-24) and then Hooker and Thompson [...]
In this article we will discuss about zoological nomenclature and zoological classification of animals. Zoological Nomenclature: Names are given to all animals. The name of a particular animal differs in different languages. Even within the same country one animal is known in different names in different regions. To avoid this intricacy of names, it was proposed to give them a [...]
In this article we will discuss about the artificial and natural classification of animals. Artificial Classification of Animals: When a classification is constructed on the basis of a few external characters, even a single arbitrarily chosen character and without their relationships, called artificial type of classification. The early taxonomists followed artificial type of classification up to 18th century, e.g., Aristotle [...]