He is best known for developing a method to classify plants and animals and established the system of binomial nomenclature. a. charles darwin b. carolus linnaeus c. jean-baptiste lamarck d. georges cuvier

Option B) Carolus Linnaeus

Explanation:

The linnaean system of classification was introduced by a Swiss scientist named Carolus Linnaeus.

In this system, he first split living things into a general category called KINGDOM.

- The kingdom is further split into large smaller groups called PHYLUM (for animals) and DIVISION (for plants).

- Each phylum or division is broken down into CLASSES.

- Each class is broken down into ORDERS

- Orders into FAMILIES,

- Families into GENUS

- Genus into SPECIES

Also, he introduced the system of binomial nomenclature where an organism is described by two names:

- the 1st name is genus;

- the 2nd name is species.

For instance: Homo sapiens would means Man belongs to genus (Homo) and specie (sapiens).

Hence, binomial nomenclature consists of two names