Question

Who published the book ‘Species Plantarum’ and provided a basis for the classification of plants?
a) Charles Darwin
b) Robert Hook
c)Carolus Linnaeus
d)Anton Leeuwenhoek

Answer 1

Hint Species Plantarum book was the first time that leads to the starting point for the binomial nomenclature. The naming of the organism is done by taking the name of species and genus. This type of naming system was present in this book.

Complete answer:
Species Plantarum was a book of nomenclature written by Carolus Linnaeus. It has the name of every species of plant which was known to him at that time. This book was the first to start the nomenclature of the plants. It was the starting point of the binomial nomenclature. This book was the first one to have a list of various plant names in it. Linnaeus wrote the name of the plants and also gave a short description of that plant. This binomial nomenclature was then used for naming other vascular and non-vascular plants that were not named by him in his book.

Additional information: Charles Darwin is known for his contribution in giving the theory of natural selection of evolution upon which the modern theory of evolution was given. He is the British naturalist, geologist and biologist. Robert Hooke was the first one to make and use a microscope to study the microorganism. He also gave the cell theory and told that the cell was the smallest unit of life.

So, the answer is ‘Carolus Linnaeus’.

Note: The Species Plantarum book was the first one to note about the name of the plants in a particular naming fashion. And hence led to the establishment of binomial nomenclature which is studied to date. In this book, Linnaeus gave a name to most of the plants that he knew about.