Codes of Biological Nomenclature: In biology, binomial nomenclature is essential to integrate the naming system across life sciences and therefore assign one particular unique name identifier for a particular species across different languages. Binomial nomenclature is used especially by taxonomists in naming or identifying a species of a particular organism.

It is used to come up with a scientific name for a species that is often based on the Greek or Latin language. Although Latin is now a defunct language, the naming of organisms is still being used in this language.

Codes of Biological Nomenclature

There are five codes of nomenclature which help to avoid errors, duplication and ambiguity in scientific names.

These codes are as follows

ICBN: International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

ICZN: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

ICVN: International Code of Viral Nomenclature

ICNB: International Code for Nomenclature of Bacteria

ICNCP: International Code for Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants

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