True or False! (Exercise #13)

Here is a different kind of exercise to test your knowledge of capitalization rules of names of plants and animals. This is a true or false exercise. Use the honor system to answer the exercise without looking at your booking or “googling” the answer.

1. The capitalization of plants and animals is not very significant.
2. All kinds of copyeditors should acquire special reference books of plants and animals.
3. The scientific (Latin) names of plants and animals are sometimes italicized.
4. The genus is always capitalized.
5. Species and subspecies are italicized.
6. On second reference, the genus name is usually abbreviated, and only its second letter is given.
7. Abbreviations are set in roman type.
8. Variety names are uppercased and italicized, while cultivar names are placed in single quotation marks.
9. Hybrids are indicated by a multiplication sign.
10. Phylum, class, order, and family names are capitalized and set in roman type.