Which of the Following Statements About Taxonomy Is True

question 125

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about taxonomy is true?

• A) The use of large biological databases makes it less important that each species be given its own unique name.
• B) The fields of zoology, botany, and microbiology historically used the same set of taxonomic rules.
• C) If the same name is inadvertently given to two different species, a replacement name is given to the one that was named first.
• D) All of the above
• E) None of the above

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