Question

What are components of a scientific name?

Answer 1

The following are the components:The first name that refers to the genus and always begin with a capital letter and the species name that follows the generic name and begins with small letter.

Explanation:

There are two components of scientific name. The first name refers to the genus and is called generic name and always begins with a capital letter. The specific name follows the generic name and begins with small letter. Such system of giving each species a scientific name comprising two words devised by a Swedish botanist Carlous Linnaeus is known as binomial nomenclature and the name is called as binomial name.For Example: scientific name for man is:

Homo sapiens
Scientific name for onion is Allium cepa. When handwritten they are underlined.