About 300 years ago, around 300 years ago Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus secured his place in the field of science by establishing what is now known as the binomial method.
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The convention of naming applies to all biological organisms, including animals, plants and bacteria.
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Each species has an etymological name that is composed from two elements.
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The genus name is comparable to a surname. All species with the name are closely to each other.
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This name, in turn, is distinctive to each species of the Genus. This creates a unique name for each organism described.
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Though ideas of what species exist and how to recognize them have evolved in the last three centuries, the system of naming as suggested by Linnaeus has remained the same.
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There are various codes to name algae, animals, plants and fungi, as well as viruses and bacteria.