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He was known a the Father of Taxonomy and created binomial nomenclature, which is a 2 part scientific name written in italics or underlined, based on structural similarities of organisms. Genus is always capitalized and species is always lower case. Ex: Homo sapiens

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He was called 'the father of modern taxonomy'. He developed Linnaean taxonomy, which is the scientific classification of animals still used today.

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He is considered to be the founding father of modern taxonomy as well as ecology.

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Caroulus Linnaeus invented the Binomial System for classifying animals

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Who invented the classifacation system of organism?

Carl Linne, who after enoblement was known as Carl von Linne, and eventually Latinized his name to Carl Linneaeus. His stature in science is suggested by him being the '~type specimen' of humankind.


What is Carolus Linnaeus' real name and why did he change it?

Carolus Linnaeus real name is Carl Linnaeus. There is no real reason why he changed his name however he does get confused with his son whose name is Carolus Linnaeus the Younger. He also went by the name of Von Linne when he was ennobled in 1761.


Did Linnaeus die?

Carl Linnaeus died in 1778 at Hammarby in Danmark Parish, near Uppsala, Sweden.


Who founded the science of taxonomy?

There are several that formed the modern taxonomy we know today.Carl Linnaeus first created the two kingdom system, with Animalia and Vegetabilia.Ernst Haekel developed the three kindom system, adding protista and changing vegetabilia into plantae.Edouard Chatton was the the one to distinguish between the eukaryotic and prokarytic.Herbert Copeland was responsible for the fourth kingdom, the monera. This kingdom was added and included all the bacterias.Robert Whittaker was the first to propose the five kingdom system, and he split the protista into two kingdoms, protista and fungi.Carl Woese made the six kingdom system, spliting the kingdom monera into two separate kingdoms, the archaebacteria and eubacteria.In 1990, Carl Woese redrew the taxomonic tree, which included his three-domain system, Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.


What was Carl Linnaeus knighted for?

Carolus Linnaeus was knighted for developing a systematic and scientific method of naming organisms which is still in practice. He chose a Latin name for each organisms. The name was consisted of two parts, first part represented the Genus of organism and second part represented Species of organisms.