Which of the Following Is Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Responsible For

question 34

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) responsible for?

• A) categorizing organisms based on shared derived traits
• B) understanding that an evolutionary process of branching descent with modification would generate nested hierarchies of similarity among organisms
• C) having the insight that organisms can be organized into a hierarchical system of classification without having a theoretical explanation for why these patterns should exist
• D) being the first to recognize that to make sense of the world with all of its variation, we should categorize the organisms in it.

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