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Classification - School Essays

Classification

in biology, is the identification, naming, and grouping of
organisms into a formal system. The vast numbers of living forms are named
and arranged in an orderly manner so that biologists all over the world can
be sure they know the exact organism that is being examined and discussed.
Groups of organisms must be defined by the selection of important
characteristics, or shared traits, that make the members of each group
similar to one another and unlike members of other groups. Modern
classification schemes also attempt to place groups into categories that
will reflect an understanding of the evolutionary processes underlying the
similarities and differences among organisms. Such categories ...

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to the extreme.
People sent him plants from all over the world, and he would devise a way
to relate them. At the age of thirty-two he was the author of fourteen
botanical works. His two most famous were Genera Plantarum, developing an
artificial sexual system, and Species Plantarum, a famous work where he
named and classified every plant known to him, and for the first time gave
each plant a binomial. This binomial system was a vast improvement over
some of the old descriptive names for plants used formerly. Before Linnaeus,
Catnip was known as: "Nepeta floribus interrupte spicatis pedunculatis"
which is a brief description of the plant. Linnaeus named it Nepeta
cataria--cataria meaning, "pertaining to cats". The binomial nomenclature
is not only more precise and standardized; it also relates plants together,
thus adding much interest and information in the name. For instance,
Solanum relates the potato, the tomato and the Nightshade.

Binomial Classification

Early on in naming ...

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