Using italics to name the genus and species is a standard practice in biological nomenclature. It serves to set biological names apart from other parts of a text.
Ex. Homo sapiens
Also, one must always capitalize the genus and all other taxa (kingdom, phylum, etc.) except for species, which is always lowercase. Taxa other than genus and species need not be italicized.
Ex.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: sapiens
An organism's scientific name is recognized worldwide.
Staphylococcus Aureus and Bacillus Anthracis are two scientific names for eubacteria.
A 'dead' language was needed, so that there could be no doubt about the names - there are pet names and official names for animals in most languages, so it can be hard to get a good translation from one modern language into several other modern languages. Latin was the chosen dead language because it was and is quite well known by educated people in Europe, which was the base for scientific development at the time.
Animals and plants (living things) have scientific names. A cell phone is not an animal or a plant
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It is Latin
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A word written in italic script/font.
No. Set opera names in italic, for example, Peter Grimes.
When hand writing a scientific name, you capitalize the Genus name and the species name is a separate word written in lowercase. Both names should be underlined, but the underline should be broken between the two names.
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Scientific names should be written in italics with the genus capitalized and the species in lowercase. The genus name is always written before the species name. For example, the scientific name for the housecat is Felis catus.
When written in lowercase cursive italic, the letters g, y, and b all have a looped or curved shape that descends below the baseline of the text.