Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

Language changes all the time. Words get new meanings. New words get made up. I talked about it with my friend Rich Zack. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He does taxonomy.

Christening a new species is no child’s play. Thousands of animals and plant species are discovered every year. Once these new species are discovered, it is necessary to give them an identification, a ...

Canis lupus familiaris is the scientific name for a dog. This name comes from a system called binomial nomenclature, which gives each known species a unique two-part name. It was made to give ...

Prompted by Professor Lwoff's article “Principles of Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses” (Nature, 215, 13; 1967), Drs Gibbs and Harrison defend the idea of the cryptogram, and explain its ...

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 ...