Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and name organisms from bacteria to elephant. Carl ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A program which celebrates the centenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus' – the Swedish naturalist who ...

Safely stored in a dark vault in London, the dried specimens of Carl Linnaeus's 18th-century herbarium have been revealed in ...

ZOOLOGISTS and botanists universally adopt what is termed the binomial system of nomenclature invented by Linnæus. The essential principle of this system is, that every species of animal or plant is ...

The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are: The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to ...

You say tomato, I say Lycopersicon esculentum. You say potato, I say Solanum tuberosum. But Carl Linnaeus was the real plant buff. Often called the father of classification, Swedish naturalist ...

I've been mistakenly called Jacinta, and Wahinta or Yewanda. And even Joo-an-ita! But Carolus Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature system eliminates all this confusion for the animal and plant world ...