According to the Practices of Biological Nomenclature, If the Same

question 3

Multiple Choice

According to the practices of biological nomenclature, if the same name is inadvertently given to two different species,

• A) the species named first keeps the name and the second species is given a replacement name.
• B) the species named last keeps the name and the species named first is given a replacement name.
• C) a coin is flipped.
• D) the head of the Cladistics Society chooses which species keeps the name.
• E) both species are given new names.

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Definitions:

Accentuation Effect

Overestimation of similarities among people within a category and dissimilarities between people from different categories.

Overestimation

The cognitive bias of assessing a quantity or quality as being larger, greater, or more important than it actually is.

Category

A general concept that classifies items, concepts, or ideas that share common characteristics.

Depersonalisation

The perception and treatment of self and others not as unique individual persons but as prototypical embodiments of a social group.