Chapter III Flashcards
It is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world.
Taxonomy
taxis means?
arrangement
nomia means?
distribution or method
Father of biology and taxonomist
Aristotle
Group living things in two major categories: plants and animals
Aristotle
Wrote the book Pinax Theatri Botanici in 1623, work is a listing of 6000 species, Recognized genera and species as major taxonomic levels.
Andrea Caesalpino (1519–1603)
Italian Scientist, called as “the first taxonomist”
Gaspard or Caspard Bauhin (Swiss Scientists)
Classified plants as flowering, non-flowering, monocot, dicot etc. He first used the term “species”.
John Ray (17th Century)
Father of Taxonomy
CAROLUS LINNAEUS
Developed a system of grouping organisms based on their characteristics using 7 hierarchical categories.
Carolus Linnaeus
Developed the modern system of naming know as binomial nomenclature
Carolus Linnaeus
It is the biological system of naming the organisms in which the name is composed of two terms, where, the first term indicates the genus and the second term indicates the species of the organism.”
Binomial nomenclature
How to write the scientific name?
Genus - written first and capitalized.
It appears in italics or is underlined.
species - written second and is not capitalized. It
appears in italics or is underlined.
Can you name a species after yourself?
no
What was the original language of science?
Latin
