The year old boy

1. • NAME : Aiqa Ejaz
• CLASS : BS Biotechnology
• SUBJECT : Fundamentals of Biology

2. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
INTRODUCTION
 The method of giving scientific names to living organisms is
known as binomial nomenclature.
 It is consists upon two names Genus and one is Species name.
 It was firstly discovered by Carl. Linnius.
 It published names of plants in 1753 and names of animals in
1758

3. RULES OF NOMENCLATURE
 Names are derived in Latin and Greek.
 It should be two names i.e. specific and generic.
 Names are handwritten in Italics.
 Handwritten names are underlined.
 First name is genus starts with capital letter and 2nd name is
species which will start with small letter.

4. EXAMPLES
 Onion scientific name Allium cepa
 Potato scientific name Solanum tuberosum
 Amaltas scientific name Casia fistula
 Bringal scientific name Solanum melangina

5. SIGNIFICANCE
 Different names for same organism e.g. onion, piyaz, ganda,
basal, vasal etc
 One name for many organisms e.g. Bell shaped flower is known as
blue bell and Black Bird which is used for crow and Rawan.
 No scientific basis for a common name e.g. Jelly Fish, Cray Fish,
Star Fish and Silver Fish.

6. GOOD BYE
ANY QUESTION?