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The basic unit of taxonomy is

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Species
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Genus
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Kingdom
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Family
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Solution

The correct option is A Species
  • Each unit or category of classification is termed as a taxon. It represents a rank.
  • The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the Father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as Linnaean taxonomy for categorisation of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms.
  • The term taxonomy was originally coined by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1813. Linneaus is 'The Father of Plant Taxonomy'.
  • The basic unit or smallest taxon is the species. In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as unit of biodiversity
So the correct option is Species.

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