Carl Linnaeus invented a system for classifying organisms that is still used today. His system uses binomial nomenclature, with every organism assigned a genus and species name. As an example, modern humans are classified as Homo sapiens, with Homo being the genus and sapiens the species. Linnaeus' system allows scientists all over the world to communicate clearly about different types of plants and animals.

1. Classification of
Plants and Animals
1.How are plants and animals
classified by their shared
characteristics in the system
invented by Linnaeus?
2.Why are all living things
classified in this way?
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) invented a system for naming, ranking, and
classifying organisms. His system of naming was useful so scientists, who
spoke many different languages, could communicate. In the Linnaean System,
every living thing is given two scientific names that come from Latin.

2. Linnaean Classification System
Here is the classification for modern humans:
Kingdom Animal
Phylum Chordate
Class Mammal
Order Primate
Family Hominidae
Genus Homo (meaning “same” or “man”)
Species sapiens (meaning “wise”)
Scientists refer to modern humans as “wise men,”
or Homo sapiens.

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