A gardener friend of ours used to object to calling a plant by its Latin name. She heard it as pretense and obfuscation. But after the sage incident, she conceded that there was some point to it.

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A new naming structure proposed by an American researcher moves beyond the Linnaeus system to one based on the genetic sequence of each individual organism. This creates a more robust, precise, and ...

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Each flash card is printed on the recto side only and has a small engraved illustration (some are lightly hand-colored) with two numbered questions The booklet, which has 38 pages, contains answers to ...