Musca domestica is the zoological name for the common housefly. I am sure you must have seen those before.
{| ! style="background: rgb(144, 238, 144) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" | Apple |}Blossoms, fruits, and leaves of the apple tree (Malus domestica) {| ! style="background: rgb(144, 238, 144) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" | Scientific classification |} Kingdom: PlantaeDivision: MagnoliophytaClass: MagnoliopsidaOrder: RosalesFamily: RosaceaeSubfamily: MaloideaeGenus: MalusSpecies: M. domestica{| ! Binomial name | Malus domesticaBorkh. |}The scientific name for an apple leaf is botanist forcaluss.
His system is called Binomial Nomenclature. An example would be Felis concolor. Felis is the Genus and concolor is the Species. The genus is capitalized and the species is not.Carl Linnaeus (born 1707) made a classification system for living beings we use today. It starts with Kingdoms: Animalia (Animals), Plantae (Plants), Fungi, Protozoa and Monera (Bacteria). Some scientists claim that there are six kingdoms and that Monera is split into Eubacteria and Archaebacteria.After the Kingdoms are the Phylum, then Class, then Order, then Family, then Subfamily, then Tribe, Genus, and Species. Descending, each type gets more and more specific.Now for the "Two-word" part. If you take the Genus and Species and put them one after another, you get the scientific name. For example, we humans are Homo Sapiens and Apple Trees are Malus domestica. Chimps also have the Genus "Homo" but not the Species "Sapiens".
Because a kingdom is a much more diverse measure. I have to use technical language here because it's a very technical question. It's kind of hard to explain really, so here is part of the taxonomy (scientific classification, this one very much condensed) for one of my favourite species, the Common Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) BiotaKingdom: AnimaliaSubkingdom: MetazoaPhylum: ChordataSubphylum: VertebrataClass: AmphibiaOrder: AnuraFamily: HylidaeGenus: LitoriaSpecies: caerulea The idea is that each taxa (grouping) before species contains several smaller, more specific taxa. In the domain Biota is everything that lives - plants, animals, microscopic life, the lot.In the kingdom Animalia, it narrows down quite a bit. All members of the other kingdoms are no longer in the picture.The subkingdom Metazoa includes all animals with a digestive tract, hereby removing a lot of the more primitive animals.The phylum Chordata comprises only animals with a neural tube. Many insects also have neural tubes and an insect is barely a frog. With the subphylum Vertebrata we are getting much closer. This is the point where the frog splits from the human, the fish, the reptile and the bird. Amphibia, the class, is getting quite specific.The order, Anura means tailless amphibians. There go newts, axolotls and salamanders - now we are down to frogs and toads.The family Hylidae narrows it down to just a few tens of frogs, maybe over a few hundred in a family of specialised treefrogs.Now you're getting very specific. The genus Litoriacomprises perhaps a hundred species. Animals from the same genus can often breed (ie. Equus caballus {horse} and Equus asinus {donkey} producing a mule) but the offspring will probably be sterile.And once you get to species (caerulea) you'd be lucky to find another split, because these animals are so closely related. Some species have a subspecies, but these animals can interbreed and the offspring will not be sterile. So there is far more variation in a kingdom than in a species, just because a kingdom contains a far, far wider range of living things than does a species.
The scientific name for the house fly is Musca domestica.
Musca domestica is the common house fly.
The scientific name for the common housefly is MUSCA DOMESTICA LINNAEUS.
The zoological name for the housefly is Musca domestica.
Housefly.
Musca Domestica
The scientific name is MUSCA DOMESTICA LINNAEUS.* Musca domestica, (Linnaeus was the man who named the house fly)
The cast of Musca - 2005 includes: Musca Domestica as Fliege
Musca Domestica
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It is a musca domestica.
The scientific term for a housefly is Musca domestica.