Most plants and animals have popular names varying from place to place.
So, such a name was required to be given that could be easily recognized everywhere.
Hence, Latin names were used for the scientific names of the living things. Carl Linnaeus was the man who established the modem scientific method of naming plants and animals.
The scientific names has two parts – the generic name, describing the group to which the living thing belongs and the specific name for that living thing only.
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Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as sv-Carl_von_Linné.ogg Carl von Linné (help·info), May 23 [O.S. May 12] 1707 – January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.
Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. His father was the first in his ancestry to adopt a permanent last name; prior to that, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries. His father adopted the Latin-form name Linnaeus after a giant linden tree on the family homestead. Linnaeus got most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures of botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735–1738, where he studied and also published a first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 60s, he continued to collect and classify animals, plants, and minerals, and published several volumes. At the time of his death, he was widely renowned throughout Europe as one of the most acclaimed scientists of the time.
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