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they use scientific names for nearly everything. Its to categorize and to know the specific species and genus that a person is talking about. for example. Pizza. You say pizza and people usually need to know what type of pizza you mean. pineapple. pepperoni. The Blue Ivy Plant has 7 diferent rankings the Kingdom, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and species. it is of the kingdom plantae, the division magnoliophyta, the class magnoliopsida, the order vitales, the family vitaceae, the genus parthenocissus, and the species tricuspidata.

They mainly use the genios and speicis for the scientific name or Binomial nomenclature

so the Blue Ivys Binomial name would be Parthenocissus Tricuspidata

all done to to classify.

Or maybe im wrong and its just so scientists can feel superior.

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Unlike normal words in languages, the scientific names for a species doesn't translate. It is the same everywhere.

For example, Homo sapien in English is Homo sapien in Spanish.

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