what is scientific name?

Naming of particular organism by a standard name known all over the world are Scientific Names. Provided by The International Code for Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) to plants and the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) to animals. Follow the concept of binomial nomenclature

• Given by Carolus Linnaeus

Rules of Binomial Nomenclature:- Biological Names

• • Generally in Latin, Latinised or derived from Latin

  • The first word represents genus while second component represents species.

  • Both words when hand written − separately underlined
    when printed − in italics

  • The first word of generic name starts with a capital letter and specific epithet starts with a small letter.
    Example