EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Swedish naturalist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them, known as binomial nomenclature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carl Linnaeus, born 312 years ago today, was a Swedish biologist and physician who is known for the invention of Latin binomial nomenclature, popularly known as scientific names. This system amounts to a method for organizing and classifying plant and animal species.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Carl Linnaeus (/lɪˈniːəs, lɪˈneɪəs/; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ fɔn lɪˈneː] ( listen)), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.

Detailed explanation-5: -Linnaeus divided plants and animals into broad kingdoms. He then subdivided them into phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species. Sound familiar? Generations of biologists have followed this system.