LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

DIVERSITY AMONG LIFE FORMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What contribution of Charles Darwin had a major impact on classification?
A
taxonomy
B
binomial nomenclature
C
his theory of evolution
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It has long been argued that Charles Darwin was the founder of the school of “evolutionary taxonomy ‘’ of the Modern Synthesis and, accordingly, that he recognized genealogy and similarity as dual, synergistic criteria for classification.

Detailed explanation-2: -Darwin and other scientists of his day argued that a process much like artificial selection happened in nature, without any human intervention. He argued that natural selection explained how a wide variety of life forms developed over time from a single common ancestor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed.

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