Introduction / Microbiology

Question 1

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 1

From Aristotle’s time, living organisms were categorized as plants or animals.

In 1735, Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus introduced a formal system of classification dividing living organisms into 2 kingdoms – Plantae and Animalia.

A Swedish naturalist, he is considered the ‘Father of Taxonomy’ because, in the 1700s, he developed a way to name and organize species that we still use today. His two most important contributions to taxonomy were:
1 A hierarchical classification system
2 The system of binomial nomenclature (a 2-part naming method

Question 2

Fungi kingdom

Answer 2

Fungi were placed in their own kingdom in 1959.

Question 3

Edouard Chatton

Answer 3

This man coined the term prokaryote, it was introduced in 1937 by to distinguish cells having no nucleus from the nucleated cells of plants and animals

Question 4

Roger Stanier

Answer 4

In 1961, he provided the current definition of prokaryotes: Cells in which the nuclear material (nucleoplasm) is not surrounded by a nuclear membrane.

Question 5

Taxonomy

Answer 5

The science of classification, esp. the classification of living forms, is called taxonomy. The objective in taxonomy is to classify living organisms, i.e. to establish their relationships between one group of organisms and another, and differentiate between them