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What is a genus?


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Genus:

  1. It is a group of organisms that in-house species.
  2. In the taxonomic hierarchy, it comes above species.
  3. Genus is the first word of an organism’s scientific name in the binomial nomenclature.
  4. For example, the scientific name for Tiger is Panthera tigris where “Panthera” is a genus.

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