What did Linnaeus' system of naming organisms ensure?
a. Two different organisms never end up with the same genus and species name.
b. Two different organisms have the same genus and species name if they are closely related.
c. The genus name is different for closely related species.
d. The species name is the same for each organism in a genus.

Question

What did Linnaeus' system of naming organisms ensure?

a. Two different organisms never end up with the same genus and species name.

b. Two different organisms have the same genus and species name if they are closely related.

c. The genus name is different for closely related species.

d. The species name is the same for each organism in a genus.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. Here's our next question. It says homo sapiens is the scientific name for humans where homo refers to the blank and sapiens refers to the blank name. I'll label them one and two. So scientific name or latin name Was the system invented by Carl Linnaeus back in the 1700s. We can recall from a content video and it always has two parts. Um First the genus and a genus is a closely related group of species. And what would you remember that is that letter G. Can make us think of group and this is always capitalized when you list the scientific or latin name. And the second part is the species and that would be specific to the species you're talking about and that's always lower case. And the whole thing is always written in italics and again that's called the scientific or latin name. So when we're looking at homo sapiens the scientific name, we know that homo. The first part with that capital letter must be the genus. So let's look for Andrew choices and find the ones that have genus in the first position. So that would be choice A. And choice C. So we can go ahead and eliminate B. And D. And then we know that the second part of sapiens must refer to the species name. So let's look for that. And we see that um Choice C. Has species in the second part while choice A. Does not. So we can eliminate choice A. And we're going to choose choice C. As our correct answer genus and species. The other um word in here is family and family is the level above genus. So we've got family and sort of this hierarchy of classification. Genus, species, so many uh many genera um group together make a family, but it's not part of the species name. So you'd use it in your system of classification, but it wouldn't be regularly listed in the latin name of a specific species. So that's the term family there. But again, our correct answer. Homo sapiens is a scientific name for humans, or homo refers to the genus, and sapiens refers to these species. Again, the answer is C C. U. In the next video.

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Key Concepts

Binomial Nomenclature

Genus and Species

Taxonomic Hierarchy