EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Carl Linnaeus choosed Latin for the binomial nomenclature because it is a dead language. Dead languages are defined as the language that no people or nation uses it as the official language. It is helpful to be able to understand the source of scientific names.

Detailed explanation-2: -Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Linnaean Taxonomy The system uses a series of Latin names to organize all plant and wildlife species into a classification system known as taxonomy. The Latin naming structure that we use today was systematized by a Swedish botanist named Carl Linnaeus.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scientific names have traditionally been based on Latin or Greek roots, although more recently, roots from other names are allowed and being used, e.g., Oncorhynchus kisutch. The root Onco is Latin for hooked and rhynchus is Latin for beak, i.e., hooked beak. kisutch is a Russian word.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Ever since they were first introduced, scientific names were written in Latin and sometimes in Greek because; Latin was the language of the scholars and was used for spoken and written communication. Latin and Greek were dead languages and hence could not change.