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  Nomenclature The part of classification that involves the naming of living organisms is called nomenclature. It deals with assigning a distinct name to each organisms present on the earth. The primary aim of nomenclature is 1. Any single kind of organisms should have only one correct name. 2. No two different kinds of organisms should have the same name.   Binomial Nomenclature: Carlous Linnaeus first devised the binomial system of nomenclature in the 18 th century and gradually it was adopted by the biologists all over the world. According to this system of naming , every organism is given two part scientific name – a binomen . The two parts of binomen are the genus name and species name. for example, human is Homo sapiens . Homo is the genus name and sapiens is the species name.the following conventions are followed while writing the scientific names. • Both genus and species names are always written in Latin. • The first letter in genus name is capitali...