Which of the following statements regarding the universal rules of biological nomenclature is incorrect?

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Biological names are either derived from Latin language or are latinised.

The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the species.

Both the words in a biological name, when hand written, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their Latin origin.

The specific epithet starts with a capital letter while the generic epithet starts with a small letter. It can be illustrated with example of mangifera India

answer is D.

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In binomial nomenclature generic name starts with capital letter whereas specific epithet starts with small letter eg: Mangifera indica (Mangifera – generic name ; indica – specific epithet).

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