TAXONOMY FOUNDERS

ARISTOTLE

• Introduced the two key concepts of taxonomy
• Classification of organisms by type
• The first to attempt to classify all the types of animals
• He recorded his findings in Historia animalium
• He also came up with the ladder of nature

CONTINUED

• This portrayed the essence of species as unchanging
• He also came up with binomial definition
• This is for genus and difference
• Genus is fromthe greek root meaning birth but also means race or family
• The difference is what separates it from other species

CARL LINNEAUS

• He made an attempt to classify living organisms.
• He made 2 kingdoms such as plant and animal kingdoms.
• He also contributed in the system of binomial nomenclature.
• He made a system including class,order,genus and species for taxonomy.
• As a child he loved collecting plants and was known as the little botanist

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• He became a physician but turned to botany as a primary study
• In 1735 he published his most innovative work called the system of nature
• The first taxonomist to include humans with with the primates
• hierarchical system of classification of kingdom to species with the method of binomial nomenclature

BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE

• Binomial means 2 names
• Formal system of naming species with 2 names in different latin
• One for Genus and one for the species
• Ex. Homo sapien
• Gene name is always capitalized and species name is always lower case

CONTINUED

• The names are always set apart from the text
• The gene name is always underlined or italicized
• The same goes for species name