BIOL 120A Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Willi Hennig, Phylocode, Selective Breeding
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The invention of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century allowed botanical works to be more easily produced than ever before. In the beginning it was common to name plants using a polynomial which included a single word name for the plant followed by a lengthy list of descriptive terms all of it in latin. Linnaeus"s greatest accomplishment was his adoption and popularization of a binomial system of nomenclature. A close look at common names often reveals a keen sense of observation, a fanciful imagination, or even a sense of humor for example it can be trout lily, milkweed and etc. Sometimes the names even convey feelings or emotions. Each kind of organism is known as a species, and similar species form a group called a genus. Each species has a scientific name in latin that consists of two elements; the first is the genus and the second is the specific epithet.
