Classified organisms as those with red blood cells and those without red blood cells. THEOPHRASTUS Father of Botany. He classified plants into Annuals, Biennials and Perennials. CHARAKAN The father of Ayurveda He wrote the treatise Charaka Samhita by including in it around 200 plants and animals. JOHN RAY Recorded more than 18000 plants in the book “Historia Generalis Plantarum”. Used the term ‘Species’ for the first time. CARL LINNAEUS Father of Modern Taxonomy Suggested the Taxonomic hierarchy. Proposed Binomial Nomenclature Scientific naming method for organisms.