Question : Give name of scientists contributing towards classification and classification of plants.

Question : Give name of scientists contributing towards classification

1.	Question : Give name of scientists contributing towards classification and classification of plants.
Answer» Solution :• In earlier ARTIFICIAL classification methods, completely superficial morphological characters such as location of leaves, colour of leaves, number of leaves and shapes were USED. • They were based mainly on vegetative characters or on the androecium structure. • System given by LINNAEUS were artificial. Artificial methods gave equal weightage to vegetative and sexual characteristics. • Natural classification systems developed which are based on natural relations among living beings and they don.t follow only superficial morphological characters. • But follows internal features like ultra-structure, anatomy, embryology and phytochemistry Such a classification for flowering plants was given by George BENTHAM and JOSEPH Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).