Binomial nomenclature - 12 views
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Alicia Sparks on 08 Sep 14The essence of this system of naming is this: each species name is formed out of (modern scientific) Latin (or is a Latinized version of other words), and has two parts, the genus name and the species name (also known as the specific epithet), for example, Homo sapiens , the name of the human species.