Otto von Münchhausen
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Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He named several species of oaks by the Linnean system, as well a
Otto von Münchhausen
Binomial nomenclature
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In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature, also called binary nomenclature, though a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gram
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Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, invented the modern system of binomial nomenclature.
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