Question

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

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

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.