• Nomenclature
• The process to standardise the naming of a living organism is known as nomenclature.
• The process of assigning a pre-existing taxon name to an individual organism is identification.
• The system of providing a name with two components Generic name and specific epithet is known as Binomial nomenclature.

 

 

• Binomial nomenclature was given by Carolus Linnaeus.
• The biological names are generally in Latin and written in italics underlined when written by hand. Example: The biological name of mango is Mangifera indica.
• The first word in a biological name (e.g. Mangifera) represents generic name, which always starts with capital letter while the second component (e.g. indica) represents the specific epithet that starts with a small letter.

 

• IUBN – International Code for Botanical Nomenclature and IUZN – International Code of Zoological Nomenclature are responsible for approving a scientific name and ensuring that this name has not been given to any other plant or animal.

Taxanomy is the bramch of biology that deals with framing of laws of classifying the organisms.