Diversity In Living Organisms

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The system of binomial nomenclature was proposed by Carolus Linnaeus (1707 – 1778).

Conventions of writing biological name are as follows:

1. The biological name is composed of two terms. The first term is called genetic name and the second term is called species name.
2. The genus name starts with a capital letter, while the species name starts with a small letter.
3. In print, the scientific name is written in italics.
4. When handwritten, the genus name and species name need to be underlined separately.