The first word of a scientific name of an organism indicates its

Genus

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Species

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Family

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Kingdom

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The correct option is A
Genus

The first word of a scientific name of an organism indicates its genus and the second word indicates the species. By this method of binomial nomenclature, the scientific name of an organism has been made common all over the world.

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