About four
million of different plant species and thirteen million of animal species have
been named and described till today. The number is not yet final because the
description of more and more new species is being added to it almost every day. It is assumed that the
number will reach a crore in future when the description of all the organisms
will be ended. A large number of organisms of needed to be grouped
systematically for the convenience to know, understand and learn them. many
years back natural scientists felt the necessity to classify living world
following a natural system. From this very necessity, a distinct branch of
biology,taxonomy had emerged. the aim of classification is only one to know the
vast and diverse living world accurately and classify them with little effort
in a short period of time. The contribution of Swedish botanist, physician and
zoologist Carol us Linnaeus (1707-1778) in the field of taxonomy is more worth
mentioning. In 1735 at the age of 28, he took his doctoral degree in medicine
at the university of Hardwired, and in 1741 he was appointed professor of
Medicine at Upscale University . Though he was first responsible for
medicine-related matters, soon he changed his position with the other professor
of medicine to become responsible for the Botanical Garden, botany and natural
history instead. He thoroughly reconstructed and expended the Botanical
Gender. It was main field of his intense interest to classify organisms from his
botanical and zoological observations that he assembled from his many
expeditions. He classified living world into two kingdoms- plant and animal.

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