Question

Who was the first taxonomist to classify the names for plants and animals?
(a) Linnaeus
(b) Bauhin
(c) John Ray
(d) Aristotle

Answer 1

A swiss botanist born on 17 January 1560 in Basel and was the disciple of Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale. He was the first to describe thousands of plants and animals and also worked on the nomenclature of human anatomy.

Complete answer
The organisms that include the plants and animals of the whole world were first classified by Gaspard Bauhinia and later the Binomial system of Nomenclature was introduced by Linneaus. Linnaeus had done his binomial nomenclature of plants and animal species based on the classification already done by Bauhin. This classification system includes the scientific anime of the genus and the species of the various plants and animals. In the honor of Bauhin, the Genus name Bauhinia was given on his name along with his brother Jean Bauhin. In 1623, Gaspard Bauhin had written a book where he classified thousands of plant and animal species named Pinax theatri botanici.

Additional information
-Linnaeus (1707–1778), a Swedish naturalist, has been introduced to the taxonomic hierarchy. That’s why it is also called a Linnaean hierarchy. It's utilized to classify organisms into completely different classes. It includes the sequence of classes in an exceedingly decreasing or increasing order from kingdom to species and vice-versa. The domain is the top rank within the hierarchy and it is followed by division of the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Species are the lowest rank within the hierarchy.
-John Ray, a naturalist who was well known for his work on the modern taxonomy and also in defining the species.
-Aristotle was the first to develop a system of classification of animals based on observations of animals and used physical characteristics of them. He categorized animals into two groups, followed by five genera per group, and then into species within each genus.

So, the correct answer is ‘Bauhin’.

Note:
The concept of species was first introduced by Linnaeus. It was the word that was taken from the Greek word taken from the bible. Around 8-8.7 million species are known to date. However, out of these only 18-$20\%$ of the species were described till now.