1.   A particular problem requiring resolution concerns the status given to scientific names for plants and animals.

2.   Once a few have been mastered it is surprising how quickly the most ponderous sounding scientific name acquires a familiar ring.

3.   The scientific name for common salt is sodium chloride.

4.   An appendix chronicling common names, scientific names and distributions of wildflowers should help the budding biologist.

5.   And Fenical expects to resume the search for the animal, which has been seen before and has the scientific name Diazona chinensis.

6.   Another common name of chamisa is rabbitbrush, and the scientific name is Chrysothamnus nauseosus, which says something about the olfactory impression chamisa makes on botanists.

7.   A few specimens are so new they have yet to be given formal scientific names.

8.   A distribution map and illustration accompanies each animal, along with its scientific name, family and symbols noting periods of activity and population status.

9.   A. Because the scientific name is the key to everything we know about a plant.

10.   Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis, the scientific name of the bacterium from which the toxin and the gene producing the toxin originate.