Question

The natural system of classification is given by

• A. Carolus Linnaeus
• B. George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker
• C. Hutchinson
  
• D. Ernest Haeckel

Answer 1

The correct option is B

George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker

The correct option is B.

Explanation for the correct option:

1. The natural classification system for organisms is based on the descent of a common ancestor.
2. This categorization is based on the organism's vegetative features, which are stable and do not change with the environment.
3. George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker proposed the natural categorization system.

Explanation for the incorrect option

Option A

1. A nomenclature system in which each animal or plant species is given a name that consists of two words: the first defines the genus to which it belongs, and the second identifies the species.
2. The binomial nomenclature system was proposed by Carl Linnaeus.

Option C

1. His idea recognized two distinct types of angiosperms: herbaceous and woody angiosperms.
2. Hutchinson went to South Africa on two separate collecting journeys, which he chronicled in A Botanist in Southern Africa.

Option D

1. Even when he was wrong, Ernst Haeckel, like Herbert Spencer, was always quotable.
2. He developed terms like phylum, phylogeny, and ecology, which scientists still use today, and is credited with saying "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

Final answer: The natural system of classification is given by George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker