Biology Chapter 1: Principles of Life

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What is the study of Biology ?

The scientific study of life, which encompasses all living things, or organisms

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Nucleic acids

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Binomial

A taxonomic naming system in which each species is given two names

Ex: Homo Sapiens

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What does the first word in a binomial name identify ?

The species genus

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What does the second word in a binomial name identify ?

the species

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What are these scientific names italicized ?

To allow biologists writing in any language to refrer to the same species in the same way