why do scientist classify organisms into their scientific names?

Answer 1

The need of giving the animals scientific names was here since the discovery of organisms started. People call one same vebetable by different names.
From the earliest times plants and animals have been given common names by the people. Since no system was used in choosing common names, in many cases, various regions had their own names for the same plant or animal. let m e give you example of my Country, Pakistan.

Take 'onion' for example; Its common name in URDU language is "Piyaz" but in different regions of my country it is also known as 'ganda' 'vassal' 'bassal' etc.
Similarly, Amaltas, argvad, gurmala, golden shower, purging cassia are all common names for the same plant !!!
Thus the same plant may have different names.
Let me give u a scientific example. What is a "Black bird" ?
Dozens of birds with black colours can be called as black bird.
Similarly, "Blue bells" ... dozens of plants with bell shaped flowers are called "blue bells". common names have no scientific basis.

To a Biologist, a fish is a vertebrate animal with a backbone, fins and gills. But "Silver fish" is an insect. and a cray fish jelly fish and starfish doesn't fit in this biologist's definition of Fish.

Common names had long caused confusion. During 18th century, Carlous Linnaeus (1701-1778), a swedish botanist, devised a system for naming and classfying all the organisms known to him. His system is used today internationally. He discarded the common names of plants and gave each one a scientific name from Latin word. Linnaeus published his first list of plants names in 1753.
Linnaeus system of giving each species a scientif name comprising two words (first name is refers to genus and is called as generic name and always begin with a capital letter whereas second name refers to the SPECIE) is known as "BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE".

The scientific name for Onion whose example i gave, is Allium cepa.

Answer 2

Naming and classifying organisms are two separate processes. Classifying is the process of
grouping the organisms in some way on the basis
of their similarities of one kind or another. This
can be done whether the scientific names are used
or not. There have been many different kinds of
classifications, and all people have used one or
another of them.

The system of naming we currently use was
made uniform by Linnaeus (he didn't invent it, but
he was the first to use it consistently for all the
organisms then known). He used Latin for many
of the names, and for the explanatory text because
that was the common language of educated
Europeans, so it would be readily understandable
to all of them, no matter what their native language
was. Contrary to popular opinion the names are
not always, or perhaps not even mostly Latin.
Greek is also common, and the names can actually
come from any language. Some of them are not
even from any spoken language at all. They may
be simply a madeup, entirely arbitrary, combination
of letters. Several organisms have been given
scientific names drawn from the names of
characters in The Lord of the Rings. Sometimes
the scientific and common names are the same -
rhododendron, chrysanthemum, hippopotamus and rhinoceros are all scientific names, and all of
them are Greek.

Answer 3

It's mainly because biology is not an exact science like chemistry, mathematics, classical physics and such. It is heavily influenced by interpretation of findings in a purely atheistic way. Therefore biological classification and taxonomy is done to fit with the untouchable theory of evolution. So contradictions are inevitable. The next change will come. Some biological scientists have suggested to classify the living organism according their ability for successful interbreeding. This would give a testable basis for the kind of living organisms. But this idea was rejected because it would give some hard facts that do not support macro evolution but only micro evolution.

Answer 4

makes them think they are smarter than the rest of us because they can pronounce those big words.