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What is the procedure of providing distinct and proper names to organisms?

In order to facilitate the study, number of scientists have established procedures to assign a distinct and proper name to each known organism. Biologists follow universally accepted principles to provide scientific names to known organisms. This system is called Binomial nomenclature. Under Binomial system of nomenclature, each organism has scientific name consisting of two parts. First part is genus and second part is the species.


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