QUESTION 2 Who proposed the swampsQuestion d O a) Thucydides Completion Status:
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QUESTION 2 Who proposed the swampsQuestion d O a) Thucydides Completion Status: b) Marcus Terentius Vmo c) Hippocrates O d) Louis Pasteur QUESTION 3 Which of the following was NOT a kingdom in Linnaeus's taxonomy? a) animal b) mineral c) protist d)plant QUESTION 4 Which of the following is NOT a domain in Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree? a) Plantae b) Bacteria c) Archaea d) Eukarya QUESTION 5 Which of the following is a standard source for identifying bacteria? 0 a) Systema Naturae b) Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology c)Woese and Fox's phylogenetic tree d) Haeckel's General Morphology of Organisms QUESTION 6 Click Save and Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to sqve all ansiwers. MaExplanation / Answer
1. The correct answer is option B. Marcus Terentius Varro was an ancient Roman scholar and writer. He proposed that swamps might harbor tiny, disease-causing animals too small to see.
2. The correct answer is option C. Carolus Linnaeus is the father of taxonomy. He introduced the system of classifying and naming organisms. One of his contributions was the development of a hierarchical system of classification of nature.
3. The correct answer is option A. Carl Richard Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese which revolutionized the discipline of microbiology.
4. The correct answer is option B. The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.