If there are so many million insects and so few scientists to describe them, perhaps we could just assign the insects numbers and descriptions, rather than names. Describe why this would not accomplish the same "job" as giving them a scientific name, and provide two potential items of knowledge that would be missing with just a number and description. Simply, what does naming an organism accomplish?
What will be an ideal response?
Naming an organism goes beyond just giving an organism a number and description. By providing an official scientific name, scientists around the world can communicate about the same organism using the same name. Scientific names also place organisms into related groupings, which could eventually provide clues to their evolutionary history as well.
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