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What is scientific Naming of organisms all about?

      

What scientific Naming of organisms is all about?

  

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vincent
Scientific naming involves assigning an organism two names in Latin language. The naming system was developed by Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century.
Organisms always have common names and scientific names. Common names are local names by which the organisms are known in the vernacular languages. In particular, a cat is an English name, mbura is a luo name, paka is a Swahili name.
These names differ across cultures and cannot be used by scientists to communicate across the world. This makes sharing scientific knowledge on organisms very difficult. There was need for a common language and this led to development of scientific language in latin.
Latin was the preferred language since it was the first language of civilization that was widely spoken at that time.
Similarly, latin language is a dead language hence not subjected to a lot of changes. The scientific names are, therefore, static.
Scientific names are the valid names by which organisms are known all over the world.
In scientific naming, an organism is assigned a specific name that is unique. The specific name adopts two names. This implies that the specific scientific name of an organism has two names. This double naming system is known as binomial nomenclature.
In binomial nomenclature, an organism is assigned its genus name and species name.
Assigning of scientific names to living organisms is governed by a definite set of rules which are internationally recognized and referred to as binomial nomenclature which literally means the rule of double naming system.
vindori answered the question on April 17, 2018 at 13:04


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