Diversity In The Living World

Answer (d) Latin was a dead language, its words would convey precise meaning,. If was the mother of all European languages and all the early botanical literature was. in Latin.

A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. The scientific names of the main cultivated bananas are Musa acuminaia, Musa balbisiana and Musa paradisiaca (hybrid of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana).

In Engler and Prantl's system of classification, angiosperms are divided into two classes Monocotyledoneae and Dicotyledoneae. Family Musaceae comes under the order Scitarnineae of the class Monocotyledoneae.

Linnaeus is remembered till now for giving a precise system of plant nomenclature. Species Plantarum, published in May 1753, in two volumes, was the first book in which binomial nomenclature was used for describing all the plants. Each plant was given a generic name, followed by a specific name and then third word if present, represented variety.or sub-species.