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Tuesday, 31 January 2012


How to remember scientific names of organisms in biology easily?
Now that's  a real challenge for all the biology students. These biological terms are derived from dead languages(which is no longer used) like Latin and Greek so that it cannot be changed as the time passes.

Now lets learn some simple method to remember this craps! 

Now we all know that all scientific names consists of two words i.e., one GENERIC name and other SPECIFIC name. 

Depending on that I've divided the  Scientific names into three types:
I :The one with EASY Generic name but COMPLICATED Specific name
II :The one with COMPLICATED Generic name and EASY Specific name
III :The one with both the Generic and Specific name COMPLICATED

Now lets start !!!

I
The scientific names with easy Generic name means that the first word of the name is quite familiar with our common languages or sounds familiar to the words that we use in our daily life and quite easy to remember and COMPLICATED Specific means the second word is completely pissing you and you have to come up with something to remember it.

Now lets take a few examples:


-The scientific name of Crocodile is Crocodilia niloticus
  The word Crocodila sounds similar to the word Crocodile and you can remember that easily and the word Niloticus is quit difficult. So lets think about the nature of the Crocodile when you had a visit to a Zoo. Its quite lazy, doesn't even move for few hours unlike other animals like Monkey that is very quick and TEASES YOU. So using this, divide the wordNiloticus to 'Nil', 'Lot' ,'Tease' and 'Us' which means "It doesn't(NIL means Zero or nothing)teases us a lot". Now you can come up with this word by thinking about the Crocodile. Its quite simple you see!!



-The scientific name of Chameleon is Chamaele ontidate

 The word Chamaele sounds like Chamemeon , so that's not gonna be your problem.     

But the word Ontidate  the problem. Lets think about Chameleon for one sec, it changes its 

color time to time. So lets again divide the word Ontidate to 'On', 'To' and 'Date' which 

means "its changes its colour On to date 


But not all the SPECIFIC words scientific names cannot be divided to simpler. It all depends 

on how many ways  your mind thinks to divide these kinda words.


II

Here the second word is EASY to remember and the first word is DIFFICULT.

 Now lets take examples


- The scientific name of the Tiger is Panthera tigris

The word Tigris is quite easy to remember as it sounds familiar to the word TIGER. But 

the word Panthera  is difficult to remember. but it sounds more like PANTHER which is 

also a wild animan like Tiger . We know that Panther and tiger comes under same family and  

their names are written together like FATHER AND SON.

That was one more easy step.



III

Here both the words are complicated and beat the shit out of you!

But lets not loose hope.

 Now lets take example.


- The scientific name of Dog is Cannis familiaris


Both the words are quite difficult . Now we all know that Dogs have good and long teeth, 

especially the canines. So remember canines for CANNIS. 

We also know that the most people prefer dogs as pets and the make dogs as FAMILY 

ANIMAL. So remember FAMILY for FAMILIARIS .




Now I hope that you got an idea about how to 

remember these names easily 

THANKS FOR READING :)

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