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Question 21
Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

(a) Robert Whittaker
(b) Carolus Linnaeus
(c) Robert Hooke
(d) Ernst Haeckel

Answer 1

Ans) (b) Carolus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus is famous for his work in Taxonomy, the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms (plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, etc.).

Robert Whittaker was the first to propose the five kingdom system of classification.

Robert Hooke discovered plant cells.

Ernst Haeckel is a German biologist who described and named thousands of species.