Q 01/05

Which country was Carl Linnaeus born in?

A) Germany

B) Denmark

C) Sweden

D) Netherlands

Answer · why

C) Sweden

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

Which naming system did Linnaeus formalise for organisms?

A) Cladistic coding

B) Trinomial nomenclature

C) Phylogenetic ranking

D) Binomial nomenclature

Answer · why

D) Binomial nomenclature

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

Linnaeus is popularly known as the father of which discipline?

A) Modern chemistry

B) Modern genetics

C) Modern taxonomy

D) Modern geology

Answer · why

C) Modern taxonomy

His hierarchical scheme of kingdoms, classes, orders, genera and species is the ancestor of the classification biologists use today.

Q 04/05

What name did Linnaeus take after his ennoblement in 1761?

A) Carl Nilsson

B) Carl af Uppsala

C) Carl Rudbeck

D) Carl von Linné

Answer · why

D) Carl von Linné

'Linné' was a shortened, gallicised form of Linnæus, with the German nobiliary particle 'von' added to mark his new rank.

Q 05/05

What abbreviation marks Linnaeus as the authority for a plant name?

A) Lin.

B) Ln.

C) L.

D) C.L.

Answer · why

C) L.

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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