Write a short note on Binomial Nomencia? ture and guidelines for Binomial nomenclature.
Binomial Nomenclature was introduced by Carolus Linnaeus. In this method every organism is given a scientific name, which has two parts, the first is the name of the genus (generic name) and the second is the name of the species (specific epithet) e.g.: Homo sapiens In the above examples, Homo is a generic name, while sapiens is the name of the species belonging to Homo. Guidelines: scientific names are generally in Latin or derived from Latin irrespective of their origin The scientific names are written in italics or underlined (when handwritten) The first word denotes the name of the genus and the second word denotes the specific epithet The generic name starts with a capital letter, while the specific name starts with a small letter (If a specific name starts with a capital letter it denotes the name of a person or place) The name of the author is written in an abbreviated form after the specific name. e.g.: Homo sapiens Linn.
