Biology home work Help?

Question

What types of problems would scientists have today if Carolus Linnaeus had not developed his classification and naming system for organisms?

Answer 1

The taxa for classification of all living organisms is as follows:
Kindom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.

These classifications make it easier to identify and classify organisms based on morphology, embryology, and many other features.

If Linnaeus had not developed his naming system for organisms, scientists would have to refer to a dictionary of some sort everytime a animals name was mentioned to see it what kind of the features the animal posses.

The classification system however makes this easier. For example, Canis familiaris is the commen domestic dog whereas Canis lupus is the grew wolf. They both have the same genus name, and even if you didn't know that they were two different animals just from the genus name they share you could infer that they are related. In other worlds the classification helps us better understand how an organism is realed to other organisms.

Answer 2

Well, they wouldn't have a system for naming newly discovered organisms. They would all have random names unable to show if they were related to one another (which the hierarchy established by Linnaeus does). Also, different scientists would probably have differing names for the same organisms, which would cause confusion in the scientific world.