<Ul> <Li> "Binomial nomenclature" is the correct term for botany, although it is also used by zoologists . Since 1953, "binominal nomenclature" is the technically correct term in zoology . A binominal name is also called a binomen (plural binomina). </Li> <Li> Both codes consider the first part of the two - part name for a species to be the "generic name". In the zoological code (ICZN), the second part of the name is a "specific name". In the botanical code (ICN), it is a "specific epithet". Together, these two parts are referred to as a "species name" or "binomen" in the zoological code; or "species name", "binomial", or "binary combination" in the botanical code . "Species name" is the only term common to the two codes . </Li> <Li> The ICN, the plant code, does not allow the two parts of a binomial name to be the same (such a name is called a tautonym), whereas the ICZN, the animal code, does . Thus the American bison has the binomial Bison bison; a name of this kind would not be allowed for a plant . </Li> <Li> The starting points, the time from which these codes are in effect (retroactively), vary from group to group . In botany the starting point will often be in 1753 (the year Carl Linnaeus first published Species Plantarum). In zoology the starting point is 1758 (1 January 1758 is considered the date of the publication of Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, 10th Edition, and also Clerck's Aranei Svecici). Bacteriology started anew, with a starting point on 1 January 1980 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "Binomial nomenclature" is the correct term for botany, although it is also used by zoologists . Since 1953, "binominal nomenclature" is the technically correct term in zoology . A binominal name is also called a binomen (plural binomina). </Li> <Li> Both codes consider the first part of the two - part name for a species to be the "generic name". In the zoological code (ICZN), the second part of the name is a "specific name". In the botanical code (ICN), it is a "specific epithet". Together, these two parts are referred to as a "species name" or "binomen" in the zoological code; or "species name", "binomial", or "binary combination" in the botanical code . "Species name" is the only term common to the two codes . </Li> <Li> The ICN, the plant code, does not allow the two parts of a binomial name to be the same (such a name is called a tautonym), whereas the ICZN, the animal code, does . Thus the American bison has the binomial Bison bison; a name of this kind would not be allowed for a plant . </Li>

In the binomial name pisum sativum the first term refers to the