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But the really important thing that he did was he gave them a two-part name. Now, before Linnaeus, all the names that were given to plants and animals were actually long descriptions of those plants or animals in Latin. That’s pretty cumbersome. When you’re dealing with a plant, you...
Why do ornithologists use the biological species concept? Why is experimentation so important to science? Why was Carl Linnaeus famous? What is the importance of binomial nomenclature in science? Why is evolution important to zoology? Why are Greek and Latin words used in scientific terms?
Instead of using common names for organisms, scientists use scientific names, calling an organism by its genus and species. This method of naming, called binomial nomenclature, has been in use since it was developed by Carolus Linnaeus in the mid-1700s....
Meanwhile in biology, a Swedish botanist named Carl Linnaeus studied the similarities and differences between plants and animals and worked out a neat, hierarchical system of classifying species that we still use to this day. A little later, Gregor Mendel pioneered genetics (the idea that plants ...
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