What is the Correct Scientific Name?

Binomial nomenclature involves organizing an organism's scientific name into a combination of two terms.

These terms are the genus name and the species. Both of these terms are italicized and the genus name is also capitalized.

For example, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens. The genus name is Homo and the species is sapiens.

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