Scientific Names
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Genus
Can be used to describe group of animals, capitalized
How many names dows an organism have?
Each organism has one and only one scientific name
Two-word Latin name
First name is the genus, second name is species
Species
Only describes one animal, lowercased
Taxonomy
Science of classifying organisms and putting them in all the correct levels from domain to species
Classification
Taxonomy, Binomial nomenclature
Single name
applies to only one species; never duplicated
Binomial nomenclature
naming an organism with genus and species names (scientific name)
