Question

According to Aristotle Chlorella comes under _______

(a) Plantae

(b) Animalia

(c) Protista

(d) Plants

I had been asked this question in examination.

This interesting question is from Classification of Organisms by Aristotle and Linnaeus topic in portion Biological Classification of Biology – Class 11

Answer 1

Right option is (d) Plants

To elaborate: Aristotle classified organisms as Plants and Animals. He considered Chlorella under the category of Plants. His classification didn’t consider structure of the cell which resulted in Chlorella under Plants in his classification.