Who created the two-part naming system used in biology?
The scientific naming system that is used worldwide today was primary devised by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1737. He proposed a two-part naming system, which classifies each living organism with a string of Latin and Greek identifiers. Full names are devised preliminary with kingdom and extending downward through phylum, subphylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The two-part name, or binomial name, having of the genus and species of the organism and used to stop the confusion that may arise with common names.