• Question: what is the scientific name for bacteria?

    Asked by nadeem10 to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Panos Soultanas

      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Each bacterial speies has its own name eg Streptococcus pneumoniae, mycobacterium tuberculosis etc.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      all bacteria have a double barrelled latin name like Escherichia coli or staphylococcus aureus so thats their scientific name like Canis lupus is the scientific name for wolf..its just bacteria don’t have another name unlike wolf

    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Bacteria as a group are called Bacteria, a single one is called a bacterium. There are thousands, possibly millions of species, most we probably don’t yet know about.
      Check this out, it’s a tiny fraction
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/lproks.cgi
      Hope the link works! 🙂

    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Bacteria is a scientific name but there are loads of bacteria and each one has a latin name.

    • Photo: Mark Travis

      Mark Travis answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Bacteria is the scientific name. You do get scientific names for specific types of bacteria, like Escheria coli (E. coli), Listeria, salmonella, yersinia, lactobacillus, bifidobacteria, and many,many more….. this tells you what family of bacteria they belong to.

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