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Can a scientific name have 3 words?


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Scientific name

  1. The scientific name of a species is a binomen.
  2. A scientific name is written in two parts that is a genus name and a species name.
  3. In biology, trinomial nomenclature refers to names for taxa below the rank of species.
  4. These names have three parts. i.e., Genus, species, subspecies.
  5. Example: Panthera tigris tigris.

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