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Assertion: Aristotle was the earliest to attempt a more scientific basis for classification.
Reason: He used simple morphological characters to classify plants and blood for classify animals.
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Aristotle was the earliest to attempt a scientific basis for classification.
However, he classified plants into trees, shrubs, herbs and animals mainly based on presence or absence of blood, not “blood for classify animals” in that form.
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