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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 01:43:12

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 01:43:12

How did he help us to keep from tangling up our plants?

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: neilep on 14/01/2008 03:13:21

Ummm....did he invent gardening gloves so that rose thorns don't ***** us ?

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 03:17:52

What did you bleep out! LOL Not gardening gloves!

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: neilep on 14/01/2008 03:19:44

P_rick us !!....sheesh !!..I try to use a potentially naughty word innocently and it gets buzzed by the censor net !!

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 03:32:50

LOL LOL LOL lOL .. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what word you could have possibly printed there that was sensored! LOL  That explains it! Thats silly as that is a perfectly legitimate word..I guess depending on how it is used! Hee hee hee... only YOU! LOL

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Carol-A on 14/01/2008 09:52:07

He gave us the means of grouping plants into families etc, rather than every plant being one on its own, and a unified, binomial naming system, so that everyone knows what plant they are talking about!
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: rosalind dna on 14/01/2008 13:54:14

Carl Linnaeus is thought be the father of Taxononmy, who was interested in the naming of plants, he was also a Swedish Botanist, Physician and Zoologist.
But his parents wanted him to be a priest or aptitude.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus

From a major Swedish university, Uppsala
http://www.egs.uu.se/linne/carl.html

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 16:13:16

Thanks for the extra information Rosalind! I did not know a couple of those things about him. Cool Beans!

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: Karen W. on 14/01/2008 16:17:04

Quote from: Carol-A on 14/01/2008 09:52:07

He gave us the means of grouping plants into families etc, rather than every plant being one on its own, and a unified, binomial naming system, so that everyone knows what plant they are talking about!
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

Thank you too Carol . the link was good and similar  in what I have read . Some terms I had never seen. The information if great.. Thank you!

Title: Who is Carl Linnaeus? What did he do for us?
Post by: JimBob on 15/01/2008 03:53:48

Quote from: rosalind dna on 14/01/2008 13:54:14

Carl Linnaeus is thought be the father of Taxononmy, who was interested in the naming of plants, he was also a Swedish Botanist, Physician and Zoologist.
But his parents wanted him to be a priest or aptitude.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus

From a major Swedish university, Uppsala
http://www.egs.uu.se/linne/carl.html

Just what does an "aptitude" do? It is a new one for me.

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