A scientific name gives information about the organism's family, genus, and species.

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A scientific name typically consists of two parts - the generic name and the specific epithet, which are simply the genus and species names respectively. It does not provide information about the family of the organism. For example, the scientific name of humans is Homo sapiens. So humans belong to the genus Homo and the species name is sapiens.

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