The scientific name of an organism contains information about it ____ and ____.
(A) family and species
(B) order and family
(C) genus and species
(D) genus and family
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Solution
Answer: genus and species
The scientific (bionomial) name of an organism contains information about its genus and species. Eg: the scientific name of tiger is Panthera tigris. In this, the genus is Panthera and the species is tigris.