How Have Classification Systems for Living Things Changed Over the Years

question 36

Multiple Choice

How have classification systems for living things changed over the years?

• A) Scientists have always recognized five kingdoms of living things, but the placement of species within those kingdoms has changed.
• B) Until the last 20 years, organisms had been classified first as animal or plant. Recently, a five-kingdom system became the preferred classification system.
• C) The three-domain system has been introduced within the last 30 years, to supplement the five-kingdom system.
• D) The exact organization proposed in the eighteenth century by Carl Linnaeus has recently been reinstituted by scientists.

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