Carl Linnaeus was the famous 18th century Swedish botanist and naturalist who created the basic biological taxonomy — the so-called binomial classification system — that is the foundation of ...

Taxonomy is the science of naming, defining and classifying organisms into evolutionarily related groups. It gives biologists a common language.

Tree species get their scientific name (tree taxonomy) using the Linnaean classification system called binomial nomenclature.

Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus ...

He is often called the Father of Taxonomy. Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

This job of assigning species into a biological classification is the science of taxonomy – sometimes also called systematics. In the biological sciences, taxonomy has been the bedrock of our ...

Considered the father of modern taxonomy, Linnaeus created a system that classified about 4,400 animals and 7,700 plants into an increasingly ... His naming system, known as binomial ...

One of the most important features of taxonomy is binomial nomenclature. This two-part naming system was introduced by the renowned Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century.