Question

What is called Nomanclature of species?

Answer 1

• In biological classification, system of naming organisms is known as nomenclature.

• The species to which the organism belongs is indicated by two words that is the genus and species name which are latinised words derived from various sources.

• A common system of naming is essential so that it makes it widely accepted throughout the world.

• This helped to a great extent in maintaining the standardization in naming living things.

• Binomial Nomenclature is a two term naming system which uses two different terms to name the species ,plants ,animals and living organism.

• Binomial Nomenclature is also known as binary nomenclature.

• The two terms consists of genetic habitat which is genus of that species and specific epithet which indicate the species itself.

• This two term name in system can also use some other different languages to create the scientific name.

• This scientific names are unique and help in identifying organisms anywhere in the world.