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What is Binomial Nomenclature?Who proposed it?

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Binomial nomenclature is the system of naming plants and animals. In Binomial nomenclature each name comprises of two letters, in which the fist letter denotes the Genus and the second letter denotes the specific epithet or the species. Carolus Linnaeus prooposed the system of Binomial nomenclature

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