Question

The book Systema Naturae was written by
A)Linnaeus
B)Haeckel
C)Whittaker
D)Brown

Answer 1

The first edition of this book was published in 1735 and the 10th edition, published in 1758, was the most important and useful reference until recently to the system of nature throughout the three kingdoms of nature, such as the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom and the kingdom of stones.

Complete answer:
A binomial nomenclature book introduced by the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician, Carolus Linnaeus, as the basis for linnaean taxonomy. It means, therefore, according to class, orders, genera and species with differences in character, dole out as evidence of the starting point of the zoological nomenclature.

In the 10th edition of this book, he presented a new classification for the plant kingdom in which a new sexual classification of the species is elaborately structured, with a similar number of stamens belonging to the same group.The animal kingdom was also subjected to a new classification that categorized humans together with groups of monkeys for the first time and classified whales from the fish into a group of mammals.

Linnaeus Systema Naturae lists only about 10,000 species of organisms, of which approximately 6,000 are plants and 4,236 are animals. According to botanical historian William T. Stearn, even in 1753 he believed that the number of plant species in the world could barely reach 10,000; in his entire career he named 7,700 species of flowering plants.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A)

Note: The 13th edition of this book, published in 1770, consists of 3000 pages. It fascinated more attention among taxonomists and botanists because of its significant transformation in classification.