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Diversity in the Living World

Question

Choose the correct way of printing scientific name of a living organism?

Easy

A

HOMO SAPIENS
B

Musca Domestica
C

Triticum AESTIVUM
D

Mangifera indica Linn.

Solution

The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the specific epithet.Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their Latin origin.Name of the author appears after the specific epithet, i.e., at the end of the biological name and is written in an abbreviated form, e.g., Mangifera indica Linn. It indicates that this species was first described by Linnaeus.

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