binomial nomenclature
The use of the genus and species names together to identify a given organism in the taxonomic system.
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BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE - The current scientific method of naming species of plants and animals.
BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL - Using living organisms such as beneficial insects or parasites to destroy garden pests (i.e.. BT - beneficial nematodes.) ...
Why Use Binomial Nomenclature?
Binomial nomenclature is useful because you don't have to know what every species looks like to have a common botanical language.
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE: a system in which the scientific name of a plant consists of two parts indicating the genus and species.
BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL: Using living organisms such as beneficial insects or parasites to destroy garden pests.
Use of the binomial nomenclature method of naming plants. Every variety of plant has one scientific Latin name to identify it.
restricted to objects of biological origin; orderly classification of plants according to their presumed natural relationships forming a basic biological discipline involving during its Linnean period the firm establishment of binomial nomenclature ...
The Heritage Garden is modeled after the first botanical garden in Padua, Italy, and is dedicated to Carolus Linneaus, who established binomial nomenclature as the system of naming plants we still use today.
Paul: In the 1700s, a guy named Carl Linnaeus came up with something called "binomial nomenclature," in which all plants were assigned a name to represent their genus and their species.
-- ; the father of modern systematic botany and the creator of our system of binomial nomenclature
Not to be confused with Linus of Peanuts fame.
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Species is a category of biological classification that is used to group similar individuals. In the system of binomial nomenclature used by botanists (and knowledgeable gardeners), a species is identified by two Latinized words.
Together, the genus name and epithet formed a unique, binomial species name. This simple and elegant convention of binomial nomenclature caught on rapidly and became the accepted form of naming species throughout the world.
 See also: Binomial, Nomenclature, Plant, Botanical, Gardening
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