Carl Linnaeus and his first classification..

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist and explorer who were the first to create a uniform system for naming plants and animals. Most plants and animals have popular names that vary from place to place. Scientific names were given so that the same name is recognized everywhere. Latin is the language used for scientific names. The scientific names are two parts. The first is the generic names, which describes a group of related living things, and the second name is the specific name, which applies only to that living thing.