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Questions Related to nomenclature in classification

Most of the botanical names are drawn from which of the following language?

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  1. German

  2. Greek

  3. Latin

  4. Spanish

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Scientific names are derived from Latin language. This is because it is a dead language and the meanings of words are not prone to changes.

The science of naming plants is known as

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  1. Classification

  2. Identification

  3. Nomenclature

  4. Taxonomy

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The art of naming an object is, in fact, a science called nomenclature. Binomial nomenclature is followed worldwide to identify an organism. Every organism has a scientific name, which is a combination of genus and species. Most of these names are in the Latin language. For example, the scientific name of human is Homo sapiens and that of frog is Rana tigrina.