Question

What are the two types of words in a scientific name?

Answer 1

Scientific name:

1. The name is used to identify and name an organism.
2. The system of naming organisms is called binomial nomenclature.
3. It was introduced by Carl Linnaeus.

Two parts of binomial nomenclature:

1. Genus: According to binomial nomenclature, the first letter of the genera of an organism is denoted by a capital letter, comes before species, and is written in italics or underlined.
2. Species: According to binomial nomenclature, the first letter of a species starts with a smaller letter and comes after the name of the genus of an organism.
3. For example, the scientific name of humans is Homo sapiens where Homo represents genus names and sapiens represents species names.