LIFE 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: -Linnaeus’s Classification System He proposed that there were three broad groups, called kingdoms, into which the whole of nature could fit. These kingdoms were animals, plants, and minerals. He divided each of these kingdoms into classes. Classes were divided into orders.

Detailed explanation-3: -An early form of the naming system was developed by the brothers Gaspard and Johann Bauhin, Swedish botanists who lived in from the mid-1500’s to the early 1600’s. In 1596, Gaspard published his book Pinax theatric botanici (“Illustrated Exposition of Plants”) that described and classified thousands of plants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carolus Linnaeus introduced the binomial system of nomenclature in 1751. He published his work in ‘Species Plantarum’ in 1753. Binominal Nomenclature is the system of classifying and naming a species giving it a unique scientific name to avoid confusion.