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

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

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Solution

(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.)

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The book Systema Naturae was written by

(a) Linnaeus
(b) Haeckel
(c) Whittaker
(d) Robert Brown

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Question 31
The five Kingdom classification was given by

(a) Morgan
(b) R. Whittaker
(c) Linnaeus
(d) Haeckel

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