In the 1700s Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus developed a system of classifying organisms in which every organism was given a scientific name that consisted of its species name and genus name. How did?

Linnaeus developed binomial nomenclature by assigning a two-part Latin name to each species, with the first part being the genus and the second part the species. This system made it easier to organize and classify living organisms based on similarities and differences, laying the foundation for modern taxonomy.