TREE IDENTIFICATION
IDENTIFICATION KEYS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
In a properly written scientific name, which part is capitalized?
|
|
species
|
|
|
genus
|
|
|
Either A or B
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The genus is always capitalized.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first letter of the genus is always capitalized while the species name is not. However, both the genus and species name are always italicized. For example, the scientific name of humans is Homo sapiens, where Homo represents the genus and therefore ‘H’ is capitalized, and sapiens represents the name of the species.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first letter of genus name is always capitalized.
There is 1 question to complete.