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Practice Writing a Scientific Name
You are weeding your vegetable garden when you discover a turnip plant with an unusual growth habit. After doing a little research, you find out that one of your turnip plants has indeed mutated. Congratulations! You are allowed to name this pant. For a turnip, the genus name is brassica and the specific epithet (species name) is rapa. You decide to use Ace (the name of your dog) as the mutation's name. How would you write this name?
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