FORESTRY
SOIL SCIENCE
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“Godfather” of taxonomy
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Creating all the common names for plants
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Neither of these
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Both of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Carolus Linnaeus is known as the father of taxonomy as he developed a system known as the Linnaean taxonomy for the categorization of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms. He classified organisms based on habitat and nutrition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Today is the 290th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world’s plants and animals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Carl Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes).
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Taxonomy’s first father was the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), sometimes also called the “father of science.” Aristotle first introduced the key concepts of taxonomy.