GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CLASSIFICATION OF ASSESSMENT
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Question
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French
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Latin
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English
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Spanish
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scientific names have traditionally been based on Latin or Greek roots, although more recently, roots from other names are allowed and being used, e.g., Oncorhynchus kisutch. The root Onco is Latin for hooked and rhynchus is Latin for beak, i.e., hooked beak. kisutch is a Russian word.
Detailed explanation-2: -Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scientific names are in Latin, so, similar to other words from foreign languages, they’re always written in italics. The generic name is always capitalized, while the species epithet is never capitalized.
Detailed explanation-4: -The basic difference is that Latin names have generally one word, whereas the scientific name has two words, one for the genus and one for the species. A dog in Latin is canis, not Canis lupus.