what is the purpose why organisms are given scientific names?

Answer 1

Kingdom, Phylum or division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

The scientific names are used to provide a unique designation to the organism. The various classifications they are in group them with other similar organisms and provide information on characteristics.

Answer 2

Organisms have a scientific name so that every person knows which organism is being discussed. For example, in some parts of the country people call the Liriodendron tulipifera a yellow-poplar or a tulip tree. The Liriodendron tulipifera is not in the tulip family. It is in the Family Magnolia.

Answer 3

So that everything can be classified in a universal way....it is a formal method of naming species and it is called Binomial Nomenclature...


Excerpt from Wikipedia..

Value of binomial nomenclature
The value of the binomial nomenclature system derives primarily from its economy, its widespread use, and the stability of names it generally favors:

Every species can be unambiguously identified with just two words.
The same name can be used all over the world, in all languages, avoiding difficulties of translation.
Although such stability as exists is far from absolute, the procedures associated with establishing binomial nomenclature tend to favor stability. For example, when species are transferred between genera (as not uncommonly happens as a result of new knowledge), if possible the species descriptor is kept the same. Similarly if what were previously thought to be distinct species are demoted from species to a lower rank, former species names may be retained as infraspecific descriptors.

Answer 4

To identify them by Genus and species. It makes it easy to sort out different animal/plants for classification based on their characteristics and similiarities. The formal name for this type of classification is called Binomial Nomenclature and the names are derived from Latin origin which can be understood by scientists around the world even if they don't have the same common name (in their language) for the same organism.

For example:

"Corvus corax" is the scientific name for "Raven" in English. In Japanese the same bird is called "Karasu" but scientists that don't speak the same language can both identify it as "Corvus corax" and so forth.

Answer 5

Most things have scientific names.
They are used in organisms because each name has to be unique to identify them.
otherwise if you were giving them a name in english then very quickly you would run out of names.

Answer 6

prevoiusly latin was a language that many people knew and understood,this is why a method of naming, known as binomial nomenclature was devised in which the name consisted of two parts..first the genus and then the spieces (ex.saccharomyces cerevisiae)..thus making the organism universally accepted by that one name

Answer 7

its for the basc purpose of sorting them according to firstly, field of study, then the names are related to various organisms using factors such as shape, colour, or prescense of motility accessories

Answer 8

So that biologists in any country will know they are talking about the same critter or plant.

Answer 9

global & interdisciplinary interests

Biologists all over the world can study the same subjects and speak the "same language."

Chemists
Botonists
etc.

Answer 10

So someone will ask a stupid question