Sentences with phrase «scientific name»

Well, the technical / scientific name for rust is called oxidation.

According to internationally established rules for naming animals, the earliest available scientific name of a species must be officially adopted.

That might be confusing to students, but you can explain that the system of giving scientific names to plants resulted from the fact that scientists were confused too!

Thus there is a valid argument for the inclusion of scientific names in these accounts.

The terrestrial species in the petition are still under status review; the aquatic species received negative findings because they have not yet been given formal scientific names.

I am going to spare you the full scientific name.

Despite the extremely scientific name, you should have an idea of what this phase is all about.

Unlike scientific names, common names are almost always different for speakers of different languages.

You can search under common name or scientific name of the plant.

Roughly 1.7 million species have been given scientific names, but perhaps 30 to 50 million or more species exist, not including bacteria.

CANCER TYPES BY SCIENTIFIC NAME.

From the outside, it can seem that taxonomy has a commitment issue with scientific names.

Scientists use Latin scientific names as «unique tags» to communicate about the morphological or molecular identity and habits of a species.

«Very little is known about the clymene dolphin, whose scientific name translated from Greek is oceanid, but ironically also can mean fame or notoriety.

The fancy scientific name for this bacteria is known as Clostridium botulinum.

Click on the name of a plant (scientific name followed by common name) to go to a page with a picture of the plant and information about it:

Macrosomia is the more scientific name to explain the birth of a larger babies.

Switek thought that a «thunder lizard» (a translation of brontosaurus) walking «must have sounded like a storm rolling across the Jurassic landscape», he writes, and long after he learned its proper scientific name, Brontosaurus remained his favourite dinosaur.

I use scientific names even on labels for common fish, such as cardinal tetras, tiger barbs, zebra danios, etc..

Family name: Balaenopteridae Order name: Cetacea Sub-order: Mysticeti (baleen whales) Common name: Minke whale Scientific name: Not yet assigned

The two - part scientific name literally means «Dracula's terrible tick,» which is a fittingly badass name for a 100 million year - old vampire.

Scientists suspect the new group will be the largest group of vertebrates to ever receive a new scientific name.

The mysterious scientific names that are on labels.

Their ancestors were wolves — and the two still share the same scientific name, Canis lupus — but dogs have changed mightily since then.

That way, we'll have good scientific names, just like geologists.

Therefore, an old scientific name was available for the «Eastern tree frog» and could be «reactivated» by Stöck.

Even lay dino aficionados and many 8 - year - olds have taken pride in knowing that the correct scientific name for the iconic beast was Apatosaurus.

According to internationally established rules for naming animals, the earliest available scientific name of a species must be officially adopted, so the Mortlock Islands flying fox is now correctly known as Pteropus pelagicus.

Dominy points out that Arctic reindeer (scientific name Rangifer tarandus tarandus) can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans and most mammals — a trait that comes especially handy in mid-winter when the sun is low on the horizon and the high scattered light from the atmosphere is mainly blueish and ultraviolet.

As a result, PESI did not only merge data from a range of sources and published a total of nearly 450,000 scientific names online.

Electrophorus electricus — everything about this eel's scientific name says high voltage!

Also included in this plant family is rape — the plant from which we not only get rapeseed but also rapeseed oil (which is the natural scientific name for canola oil).

Firstly, as a berry fruit, raspberries (scientific name rubus idaeus) are automatically beloved by most health professionals, since strawberries, cranberries and their relatives are famous for their anthocyanin antioxidants (which produce the red colour).

In the case of Chamomile, for example, the binomial scientific name is Martricaria chamomilla.

The chest muscles are often referred to as the pectoral muscles (there scientific names are pectoralis major and pectoralis minor).

For example, students work at the cart to create shadow boxes using wood, batting, fabric, and labels for documenting scientific names.

Mary Anning and her brother Joseph found the complete skeleton of a Jurassic - era ichthyosaur in 1812; the creature (which was thought to resemble a crocodile) didn't receive its current scientific name until 1817.

Also, I shortened scientific names and botanical names and made them pronounceable.

The lemur - like primate — scientific name Darwinius masillae, nickname «Ida» — is being hailed as the missing link; not necessarily our direct ancestor, but a member perched on a neighboring branch of the family tree.

The cucumber (scientific name Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant belonging to the same family as -LSB-...]

Some of these cat breeds (with their invalid scientific names for historical interest) are: [dubious — discuss]

My cage signage not only included common names and prices, but also scientific names, wild habitat descriptions, ultimate size potential, diet information, and even the source for the specific animals in the cage.

Jackfruit, scientific name Artocarpus heterophyllus, is a tropical fruit.

Spiney Lobster BelizeIn Belize, we prefer to call it by a less scientific name, we call it lobster or crayfish.

Sweet fennel Scientific Name: Foeniculum vulgare Origin: Mediterranean region Fennel was introduced to park islands in the late 1800's and was first spread by animals along roadsides.

Common Name California Spiny Lobster Scientific Name Panulirus interruptus Habitat Kelp forests and surfgrass beds.

Harding grass Scientific Name: Phalaris aquatica Origin: Europe Harding grass was first introduced to Santa Cruz Island in 1982, where it has spread rapidly.