Scientific names

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Originally Posted by Roberta

Here's a discussion on the topic from the AOS website
AOS Beginners Newsletter
Just to make it all the more complicated, the genus (plural genera) and species names are undergoing revision based on DNA evidence changing our understanding of how things are related. (The idea behind the nomenclature IS fundamentally a description of relationships)

This sounds like a nit-pick for non-biologists, but nomenclature is not a description of relationships. The description of relationships is taxonomy or systematics. Taxonomy can involves description, identification, nomenclature, and classification. So nomenclature is a part of taxonomy, and it focuses on the rules of naming (i.e. which name is considered to be invalid, which name has the priority based on the rules in the international code of nomenclature). So nomenclature doesn't involve too much of "biology" (it's just a set of artificial rules for human communication).

Taxonomy (biology - Wikipedia)
Nomenclature codes - Wikipedia