Glossary


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In the context of GNA, a name is a string of one or more characters – with or without spaces –  that is used as a label for a taxonomic concept or other entity. Names may be scientific, vernacular, or surrogates; scientific names may be code-compliant or not. The precise sequence of all characters that make up a name is referred to as the ‘name-string’. Discrete parts of a name-string are name objects (such as the Genus name).