Biology · THE LIVING WORLD

Identify the INCORRECT statement among the universal rules of binomial nomenclature:

1. Biological names are generally in Latin and written in italics.
2. The first word represents the genus starting with a capital letter, while the second component represents the specific epithet starting with a small letter.
3. Both words in a biological name, when handwritten, are jointly underlined with a single continuous line.
4. Name of the author appears after the specific epithet in an abbreviated form.