Question

How do you read a scientific name?

Answer 1

Scientific Nomenclature:

1. Scientific Nomenclature or Binomial nomenclature is the biological system of naming the organisms in which the name is composed of two terms, where, the first term indicates the genus and the second term indicates the species of the organism.
2. The system of binomial nomenclature was introduced by Carl Linnaeus.
3. The scientific name of humans is Homo sapiens. ‘Homo’ represents the genus and ‘sapiens’ represents the particular species.