VI. Answer the following questions:

1. Why did Linnaeus transfer to the University of Uppsala?

2. What was he busy with after graduating from the University?

3. What was his system of nomenclature based on?

4. How did Linneus group all the known animal species?

5. Was the new system of classification perfect?

6. How did the new system enable biologists to eliminate confusion in naming life forms?

VII. Memorize the expressions from the text, use them in translating the Russian sentences into English.

be made of (wood) - сделанный из (дерева)

be painted (red) - быть покрашенным в (красный цвет)

be like smb/smth - быть похожим на

used to do - бывало (делал)

think smb (stupid) - считать кого- то ( глупым)

take interest in - заинтересоваться чем-то

set of for - отправиться куда-либо

according to - согласно/ в соответствии с

grow fond of - полюбить/увлечься

see a promise (in)- видеть перспективу

travel on foot - путешествовать пешком

in this way - таким образом

1. Он использовал тигель, сделанный из платины.

2. Это отличное место для жизни.

3. Я увидел забор, покрашенный в зеленый цвет.

4. Мы, бывало, много времени проводили вместе.

5. Никто не считает тебя глупым.

6. Когда ему было 8 лет, он увлекся наблюдением за жизнью насекомых.

7. Согласно нашему плану, мы отправимся в путешествие пешком.

8. Линней разработал новую классификацию растений.

9. Он отправился в путь пешком по дороге, ведущей на юг.

10. В этом университете читается прекрасный курс общей биологии.

11. У ныне существующей классификации есть много недостатков.

12. Мы обсудим эту проблему позже.

VIII. Read and translate the text with a dictionary:

The present-day science of taxonomy or systematics has been recognized as a specialized branch of biology for over 200 years. During the century, a Swedish doctor and botanist Carl von Linnaeus travelled over most of Western Europe and England, collecting and studying the plants and animals of the region. He had a passion for classification and a genius for minute and accurate obser­vation and for detaching the important from the trivial. His standards for describing and naming plants and ani­mals and the criteria by which he estimated relationships and affinities were innovations for his time. His method of classification and the system he used for the compara­tively limited number of organisms that were known to him are the foundations upon which the modern systema­tic groupings of biological systems have been built.

Linnean system of classification was founded on the concept of a basic natural grouping of like individuals, called a species. He conceived of the species as a fixed and unchangeable grouping of similar individuals. He based his comparisons principally on morphological features and species was characterized, named, and filed away as an immutable entity. Such a system is essen­tially static and does not recognize the possibility of change. With the development of theories of evolution, the concept of species has changed. In the constant change and evolution, a species cannot be regarded as absolutely fixed.