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“Botany is based on fixed genera.”

Quote by Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 - January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, physician, and systematist. He is considered the father of modern biological classification and his binomial nomenclature has had a profound impact on the development of biology. more

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