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binomial nomenclature

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binomial nomenclature
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The scientific naming of species whereby each species receives a Latin or Latinized name of two parts, the first indicating the genus and the second being the specific name.
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We also discuss recent proposals to introduce a nonlatinized binomial nomenclature for virus species.
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Thus the 1980s and 1990s saw a bountiful harvest of third generation creative and critical writers, aware of and writing about the complexities and variable meanings of the binomial nomenclature "Italian American.
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It is known as binomial nomenclature or ``two-named names,'' since every living thing, by the laws of this system, must have two names; the first name represents genus or general grouping and the second represents species or specific individual type.
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