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The names of which two taxa are used in binomial nomenclature?


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Binomial nomenclature:

  1. Every living being would have a single scientific name that would be used by everyone to identify it, and this standardized naming method is known as Binomial Nomenclature.
  2. Carl Linnaeus was the first to introduce the binomial nomenclature system.
  3. Species and Genus are the two taxa used in binomial nomenclature.

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