What are the two major steps in biological classification Wh

What are the two major steps in biological classification? What did Linnaeus contribute to taxonomy? are scientific names derived? want to identify the various

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1. Two major steps in biological classification are:

a) Defining and describing organisms
b) Arranging organisms into a logical classification scheme

2. The binomial nomenclature system was introduced by Carolus Linnaeus. It is used to assign each organism a two part scientific name - genus and species.

3. Scientific names are derived following the universal rules of nomenclature:

a) These are in Latin and written in italics.

b) The first word represents the genus while the second word is the species epithet

c) The first word (genus) is written in capital letter while second word (species) is written in small letter.

d) If hand written, they are separately underlined, or printed in italics to denote their Latin origin.