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What is the main advantage of the present system of scientific naming for classifying organisms?

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it avoids the confusion of the same species having different common names in different places

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There are really a couple of advantages to the "scientific" naming system, and one disadvantage. First off, scientific naming is standardized. Each creature has only one scientific name, and each name refers to only one creature. This is of great advantage because it allows precision.
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