Taxonomy- the process of scientific classification.
Everything on earth has a name, a place, a purpose. Some names are very common, like dog, cat, or mouse. But there are several different species of dog, cat, and mouse. So how do we differentiate them? By their scientific name.
All living species have a two part, latinized scientific name, known as a
binomial. The first part is the genus to which the species belongs, this word i…
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