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Who developed taxonomy?

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Og the caveman. As long as there has been language, people have been classifying and subclassifying the things in their experience.

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Swedish scientist who developed the system of taxonomy?

carolus linnaeus (i think thats how you spell it)


What Swedish scientist developed taxonomy?

minister mc fluffienstein I think it is Carolus Linnaeus


Who invented taxonomy?

Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, is often credited with inventing modern taxonomy in the 18th century. He developed the system of binomial nomenclature, where organisms are named using a two-part Latin name, which is still used in biology today.


What is another name for the system used to classify animals?

Binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming the species. Both nomenclature and classification come under the purview of Taxonomy. The modern taxonomy has developed at molecular level using DNA fingerprinting to ascertain the relationship among different taxa.


What linnaeus contribute to the field of taxonomy?

He developed a naming system using binomial nomenclature that standardized how we name organisms.


What is The science of classification is called?

Type your answer here... Systematique ...in french. In fact Taxonomy is more oriented on descriptive and classification aspects as systématique focuses on inter-relations and how taxons are organized in evolution


The science of classifying living things is called?

It is called taxonomy.


Did Linnaeus found the science of taxonomy?

No, taxonomy was around before Linnaeus. (Aristotle I think is credited with making taxonomy a science, but I cannot be sure.) However, Linnaeus did create the system of taxonomy upon which the current system is based (i.e. the binomial nomenclature and heirarchical classification system).


Modern taxonomy begins with contributions from?

Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist, and taxonomist who developed the binomial nomenclature system for categorizing and naming species. His work in the 18th century laid the foundation for modern taxonomy.


What is the study of how living things are classified?

Taxonomy is the science of classifying living things.


What is the scientific name of taxonomy?

Taxonomy is the scientific name for Taxonomy.


Linnaeus founded the science of?

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