All scientific names must be in italics or underlined???

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All scientific names must be in italics or underlined???

True or False?

2007-05-05 08:50:13 · 4 answers · asked by Angel 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help

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Scientific names must be in italics with the first letter of the genus capitalized and the species not capitalized.

Homo sapiens (in italics)
Felis concolor (in italics)
etc

2007-05-05 09:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by Steve A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Scientific names are to written in italics

2007-05-05 16:19:38 · answer #2 · answered by stilhdr1963 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

I don't know. i would not thing so considering that normally only titles of books, tv shows, and magazines are underlined and in italics.

2007-05-05 15:58:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋

They don't HAVE to be but just in case I would put them in italics.

2007-05-05 15:58:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋