Question

Explain the binomial naming system we use to name and group plants and animals. What are some of its advantages and disadvantages?

Answer 1

Answer: According to Linnaeus Binomial naming system itself means naming of the living organisms i.e only plants and animals using two terms or two words in which one is generic name and the other is species name(right word is species name and left word is generic name).

*The binomial naming system is called as 'binomial nomenclature'. The binomial nomenclature was first introduced by scientist "Carl Linnaeus".

* The Example can be given is: Homo sapiens

Here the left word(first)is generic name and right word(second) is species name .it can be explained as,Homo sapiens is the scientific name of human beings where it means humans belong to the genus Homo and species sapiens .

*Like wise plants can also be named in same way of two parts or two words where first word is generic name and second word is species name.

The example can be given is: Oryza sativa

Oryza:genus name and sativa:species name. It is the scientific name of Asian rice.

* the two parts of the scientific name are in latin and there should not be any fullstop at end of the scientific Name.

Thus binomial nomenclature can be explained in brief .

# Some of the Advantages and disadvantages of binomial nomenclature are

Advantages:

1.Consistency across languages and cultures

2.species name in genus helps in more particular identification of the organism.

3.One scientific name belongs to only one organism this means there is precision this is great advantage.

Disadvantages:

1.The major draw back is the scientific names are not very easy to remember as no one knows what Felis leo is suddenly but can know what lion is.

2.It is confined to Two kingdoms(plants and animals ) only.

3.there are also some organisms that doest belongs to plants and animals it could not explain about them(Like protozoa)