Q 01/05
A) Germany
B) Denmark
C) Sweden
D) Netherlands
Answer · why
He was born in 1707 in Råshult, a village in Småland in the south of the country. He later became a professor at Uppsala.
Q 02/05
A) Cladistic coding
B) Trinomial nomenclature
C) Phylogenetic ranking
D) Binomial nomenclature
Answer · why
Each species gets a two-part Latin name, genus plus species, such as Homo sapiens. The system replaced long descriptive Latin phrases.
Q 03/05
A) Modern chemistry
B) Modern genetics
C) Modern taxonomy
D) Modern geology
Answer · why
His hierarchical scheme of kingdoms, classes, orders, genera and species is the ancestor of the classification biologists use today.
Q 04/05
A) Carl Nilsson
B) Carl af Uppsala
C) Carl Rudbeck
D) Carl von Linné
Answer · why
'Linné' was a shortened, gallicised form of Linnæus, with the German nobiliary particle 'von' added to mark his new rank.
Q 05/05
A) Lin.
B) Ln.
C) L.
D) C.L.
Answer · why
A single letter is enough because no other botanist gets one; in zoology his full surname is more common, and older works use 'Linn.'
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