Question

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?
A. Robert Whittaker
B. Carolus Linnaeus
C. Robert Hooke
D. Ernst Haeckel

Answer 1

Hint: The scientific naming of species is done by the binomial nomenclature method. In this naming method, only genus and species names are used to identify an organism.

Complete answer: Carolus Linnaeus was the founder of the modern biological naming method – famously known as the binomial nomenclature method.
Binomial nomenclature or two-term naming system or binary nomenclature is a formal system of the naming of living species by giving each species a name that is composed of two parts – the genus and the species.

There are certain rules to write a binomial name –
1. The scientific name should be written in Italics if handwritten then underline must be given.
2. The first one must be the genus name and the second one must be the species name.
3. The genus name should start with a capital letter and the other alphabets should be in lower case. The species name must be in lower case.
For example, The scientific name of the snake is Naja naja – the name is written in Italics and the first letter of the genus is capitalized.

So, the correct answer is option B. Carolus Linnaeus.

Note: Robert Whittaker first proposed the five-kingdom classification of the living organism of the earth.
The 5 kingdoms are - Plantae, Animalia, Monera, Protista, and Fungi.
Robert Hooke was the first scientist who used the word cell and described it as a basic unit of life.
Ernst Haeckel made a statement on his famous phrase ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny – which means that the characteristics shown by the future generations of an organism are the repetitions of the characters of the ancestors.