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| Nomenclature |
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| Carl Linnaeus, father of modern botany, was a Swedish naturalist who laid the foundation of modern classification and nomenclature in 1758. He devised a binomial system of nomenclature (naming system) in which an organism is given two names: |
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 A generic name (name of genus) which it shares with other closely related organisms which has features similar enough to place them in the same group. |
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 A specific name (name of species) which distinguishes the organism from all other species. No other organism can have the same combination of genus and species. |
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| The scientific name derived by using the system of nomenclature is followed all over the world as they are guided by a set of rules stated in the International Code of Nomenclature. |
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