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The scientific name of an organism consists of two levels of classification: genus and species. These two levels together form the binomial nomenclature system that uniquely identifies each species.
The two levels of classification included in an organism's scientific name are the genus and species. For example, in the scientific name for humans, Homo sapiens, "Homo" is the genus and "sapiens" is the species.
A scientific name refers primarily to the genus and species levels of taxonomy. The genus is a group of closely related species, while the species is the basic unit of classification representing a specific organism. Together, the genus and species make up the species' unique scientific name.
Genus is used for the first name and are capitalized the second name is the species
The scientific name would be Platonia insignis.