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Diversity in the Living World

Question

Which of these rules should be followed while writing scientific name of an organism?
(a)   Underlining or italicizing generic name.
(b)   Underlining or italicizing species epithet
(c)   First letter of specific epithet should be in uppercase
(d)   First letter of genus should be uppercase

Easy

A

a, b, d
B

a, b, c
C

b, c, d
D

a, c, d

Solution

Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their Latin origin. The first word denoting the genus starts with a capital letter while the specific epithet starts with a small letter. It can be illustrated with the example of Mangifera indica.

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