What is taxonomy? Please explain. I have a test on it tomorrow.?

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Also who is Linnaeus? Who is his son, and dad?

Answer 1

~~ Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification.
Originally, the term taxonomy only referred to the science of classifying living organisms (that is now known as alpha taxonomy)
~~ Taxonomy now applied in a wider, more general sense and now may refer to a classification of things, as well as to the principles underlying such a classification.
~~ Almost anything, animate objects, inanimate objects, places, concepts, and events, may be classified according to some taxonomic scheme.

~~ Carolus Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature.
He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."
He is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

Linnaues was married to Sara Elisabeth Morea and had seven children, Carolus, Elisabeth, Sara Magdalena, Lovisa, Sara Christina, Johannes, Sophia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linneus

Carolus is the son you would be interested in:
~~ Carl von Linné (or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger)
(20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist. He is known as Linnaeus filius (abbreviated to L.f. as a botanical authority) to distinguish him from his famous father, the systematist Carolus Linnaeus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus_the_Younger


Carolus Linnaeus's father:
~~ Linnaeus' father was known as Nils Ingemarsson.
He published Bibliotheca Botanica, Fundamenta Botanica, Genera Plantarum, Flora Lapponica, Critica Botanica.
In 1741 he was appointed professor of medicine and botany at the University of Uppsala.

More on him at the link below:
http://www.scricciolo.com/linnaeus1.htm#Medical

Answer 2

I found this on a Wikippedia site,I hope it helps you..