Sentence examples for scientific naming from inspiring English sources
By the rules of scientific naming, the first name given a species supersedes all others.
Ever since, the conformities of scientific naming have produced in-jokes, excruciating puns and dodgy cultural references.
Carolus Linnaeus, the 18th-century botanist and father of scientific naming, enjoyed the unusual status of international scientific hero.
"We really want people to understand both the importance of scientific naming and also the process you go through," Pickering said.
Scientific naming helps locate a species in the tree of life, because its two-part moniker includes both species and genus, the group of species to which it belongs.
According to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the system that governs the scientific naming of animals, Manospondylus gigas should therefore have priority over Tyrannosaurus rex, because it was named first.
Alfred Newton scientifically described the bird in 1872 and gave it the scientific name Palaeornis exsul.
Its scientific name is Agave.
Scientific name works best.
About 1.9 million species have scientific names.
The animals scientific name is Sciurus carolinensis.
