Question

The book ‘Systema Naturae’ was written by

• A. Linnaeus
• B. Haeckel
• C. Whittaker
• D. Robert Brown

Answer 1

The correct option is A

Linnaeus

The correct option is A:

Explanation for the correct option:

1. Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, biologist, and physician, introduced a book of binomial nomenclature as the basis for Linnaean taxonomy.
2. The three kingdoms of nature, mineral, vegetable, and animal, were classified in Systema Naturae.
3. Linnaeus was the first scientist to identify humans as animals.
4. Quadrupeds were the class in which Linnaeus introduced a man in 1735, and Anthropomorpha was the order.

Explanation for the incorrect options:

Option B:

1. Haeckel discovered and described hundreds of species, and invented terminology like ecology and ontogeny/phylogeny.
2. He was famous for popularizing the "recapitulation theory" during animal embryonic development.

Option C:

1. Robert Harding Whittaker was the first to divide the world's biota into five kingdoms.
2. Animalia, plantae, fungi, protista, and monera are the five kingdoms.

Option D:

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist who is most known for his descriptions of cell nuclei and Brownian motion, the continuous motion of minute particles in solution.

Final answer: The book ‘Systema Naturae’ was written by Linnaeus.