Naming
A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names The system of scientific naming, known as taxonomy, was developed in the 1700s by Carl Linnaeus to provide precise and consistent names for organisms. The binomial nomenclature system uses a two-word combination, where the first word is the genus (a group […]
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