21. Latin scientific names. 22. Ninety percent of living organisms do not yet even have scientific names, he notes, beckoning researchers with the prospect of innumerable discoveries. 23. On Thursday, the Kansas House gave first-round approval to legislation giving the official designation to Ictalurus punctatus, the scientific name for the whiskered channel cat. 24. Orchidectomy is the scientific name for surgical castration. 25. Scientific names are useful as a precise reference for a plant, and they often carry additional information. 26. S. Macrophylla, the scientific name for the wood, is carved along the length of the seat. 27. So minutely has that insect, the Drosophila fruit fly, been scrutinized that every bristle on its tiny head has a scientific name. 28. Sword studied the grasshopper, known by the scientific name Schistocerca emarginata, while a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. 29. The bird, with the scientific name Cyanopsitta spixii, is about two feet long as an adult. 30. The Comoro creatures bear the scientific name Latimeria chalumnae, and the French biologists, who had only a single sample, named the Manado species Latimeria menadoensis. |