first word in an organisms name: bacteria, classification, domain, genus, protists, or species? which would you say?
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The first word in an organism's name would typically be its genus. In biological classification, organisms are classified hierarchically, starting with the broadest category, which is the domain. The domain is followed by the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Therefore, when specifying the first word, we refer to the genus.
To determine the first word in an organism's name, you can follow these steps:
1. Start by identifying the organism's full scientific name. For example, let's consider the bacterium Escherichia coli.
2. The scientific name is composed of two words: a genus name (always capitalized) and a species epithet (not capitalized). In this case, the genus is Escherichia, and the species epithet is coli.
3. The first word in the organism's name is the genus name, which in this case is "Escherichia."
Therefore, in the case of bacteria, the first word in an organism's name would be the genus.