Question

Explain the role of latin and greek names in biology 11th 2018

Answer 1

The role for Latin and Greek words are used in classification especially in binomial classification.

In that the name of the author is kept in Roman script. The original names for these were taken from Latin and Greek languages. New names are now derived either from Latin language or are simply latinised. This is because Latin language is dead and, therefore, it will not change in form or spellings with the passage of time.

Barring obvious error in Latin and Greek languages or misprint, a scientific name retains its original spellings.

This is also because some of the great revolutionaries being either Latin or Greek from the origin of their languages

Answer 2

The word biology itself is a Greek word where bios means life and logos means study . ... This gave an advantage over not developing new words for same things. Greek and Latin being dead languages were the perfect choice to name the organisms. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE: The naming of organisms by genus and specific epithet.