<human>:  Who was the first person to discover that plants have roots?
<bot>: That would be a botanist named Carolus Linnaeus. Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who invented the system of naming and classifying living things. He created the modern binomial system of scientific nomenclature, in which species are named after their genus and then their specific epithet. He also established the modern scientific method, which is the basis of the modern scientific method.