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'”Systema Naturae” book was written by
A. Engler and Prantl
B. Darwin
C. Linnaeus
D. Oswald Tippo

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Hint: This book is originally written in Latin and written by a Swedish life scientist, botanist, zoologist and physician. It was published in 1735 . This book lists solely only describing 10000 species of organisms, of which about 6000 are plants and 4236 are animals. It also has mentioned about the 7700 flowering plants. It has 13 editions till date.

Complete answer: Systema Naturae A book of binomial language introduced by a Swedish Botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus as the basis for Linnaean taxonomy. This book enclosed the most vital and helpful reference. This contains three kingdoms of nature such as the Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Plantae and kingdom of stones that signifies according to class, orders, genera and species with character variations thus, this is characterized as evidence for the starting point of zoological nomenclature. It also became so much easier for the next generation to study biology well and go much deeper into it without any confusion.
So, the correct answer is “Option c”.

Additional Information:
Carolus Linnaeus is also considered as the “Father Of Modern Taxonomy”. And all his writings are in Latin. In the 1750s and 1760s, he began collection and classification of animals, plants, and minerals, while publishing several volumes. Linnaeus very precisely divided each class into its respective natural orders, genera, species. The Principles that we tend to use today while writing a scientific name of a species was created by Linnaeus which is written within the book. This hierarchy of taxonomic ranks replaced traditional or ancient systems of biological classification that were based on mutually exclusive divisions or dichotomies.
Linnaeus’s classification system has existed in life science or biology, although extra ranks, such as families, have been added to include all the growing numbers of species that scientists discover each day. Linnaeus had become convinced of the concept that each one of the organisms reproduces sexually. He expected each plant to possess male and female sexual organs (stamens and pistils). On this basis, he designed a simple system of distinctive characteristics to classify every plant. The number and position of the stamens(male part), determined the class to which it belonged, whereas the number and position of pistils(female parts), determined the order.

Note:
 Every recognized species on earth (at least in theory) is given a two-part scientific name. This system of classification and naming is termed as "binomial nomenclature." These names are necessary as they allow people throughout the world to communicate comfortably about animal species and their features. This works because there are sets of international rules about how to name animals and also the plants which becomes easy for everyone including students and researchers and zoologist and botanist.
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