A carbon atom with four different substituents is said to be asymmetric, and asymmetric carbons are called chiral centers

Chiral carbon most distant from the carbonyl carbon has the same configuration as the chiral carbon in D-glyceraldehyde.

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Father of Biology and Zoology

Aristotle

Father of Botany

Theophrastus

Father of Plant Physiology

Stephan Hales

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“Ernst Mayr” pioneered the currently accepted definition of a “Biological Species concept”

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Morphological concept of species (Biological Nomenclature) is given by “Carolus Linnaeus”

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Based on one easily recognisable character such as-

simple morphological characters to classify plants into trees, shrubs and herbs by “Aristotle”

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Phylogenetic system of classification are proposed by “John Hutchinson and Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl”