AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Carl Linnaeus is most famous for creating a system of naming plants and animals-a system we still use today. This system is known as the binomial system, whereby each species of plant and animal is given a genus name followed by a specific name (species), with both names being in Latin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Linnaeus came up with the binomial system of nomenclature, in which each species is identified by a generic name (genus) and a specific name (species). His 1753 publication, Species Plantarum, which described the new classification system, marked the initial use of the nomenclature for all flowering plants and ferns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Linnaeus went to the Netherlands in 1735, promptly finished his medical degree at the University of Harderwijk, and then enrolled in the University of Leiden for further studies. That same year, he published the first edition of his classification of living things, the Systema Naturae.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carl Linnaeus came up with the ‘binomial’ naming system, which means two names. Every species is known by two names. We are Homo sapiens (meaning wise man). Visit our Special Species page to create your own binomial and imagine what characteristics your new lifeform might have (and why!).

Detailed explanation-5: -THE first volume of the tenth edition of Linnæus “Systema Naturae”, published in 1758, is now universally accepted by zoologists as the starting point for the application of the rule of priority in the scientific naming of animals.