Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her ...

Any time Homo sapiens mention Felix domestica (the house cat) or Lycopersicon esculentum (the tomato) or Callyspongia ramosa (one of my beloved sponges) Linnaeus' naming system is invoked.

These finds were aided by Linnaeus's new binomial nomenclature, a system of scientific names composed of two grammatically Latin parts. This taxonomic practice is still in use today. The Linnaean ...

So, in 1735 Linnaeus started his 'dream job' of supervising the hothouses and naming specimens and classifying them according to his own system. During his stay he was to produce an important ...

That it is not meant to be so taken altogether is manifest from such statements as that “by Hök rather than by Krök Carl's name was enrolled ... that biographer of Linnaeus whom she ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up ... My new system means each organism will have a two-part Latin scientific name. The system I devised classified different organisms through hierarchy.

Taxonomy, or the naming of species ... Based on visual differences between plants and animals, Linnaeus's system was ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Living organisms are classified into groups depending on their structure and characteristics. This system was ...