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Taxonomy
What is the name of this
animal?
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the science of naming living things
Names must be uniform so scientists can describe an organism regardless of their native
languages
Organisms are classified according to the following order
- Kingdom
- Phylum
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Naming of organisms is by the rules of Binomial Nomenclature
- The name is typically in latin
- The name must be either italicized, or underlined
- Organisms are labeled according to a two name system
- The First name is the Genus of the organism
- Genus
Must always be capitalized.
- It may be abbreviated with a capital letter
- The second name is the species name
- it must also either be italicized, or underlined
Here's an example for humans
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens
Acceptable naming:
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
H. sapiens
H. sapiens
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Last Updated:
May 10, 2007