Question

Mus is the scientific name of mus musculus represented
(a) Phylum
(b) Class
(c) Order
(d) Genus
(e) Species

Answer 1

The group of related species that has more characters that have characters in common in comparison to species of other genera. It aggregates closely related species. The first word in a biological name represents them.

Complete answer:
According to the universal rules of nomenclature, in a scientific name, the first word represents a genus in which the starting letter is written in a capital letter while the second word represents species which is written in small letters. In the above example Mus musculus, for the word “Mus,” its first letter is a capital letter and it is the first word in the biological name, so it represents the genus of the organism. A group of species that are related to each other as characters in common in comparison to species of other genera that are present in the genus.

Additional Information:
- Common categories such as kingdom, division or phylum, class, order, genus, and species are developed by various taxonomic studies.
- The lowest category in both plant and animal kingdom is species that share a common gene pool among the individuals of other species.
- For an identified organism, a scientific name is given by nomenclature and it has some universal rules such as biological names are written in italics which are generally in Latin.
- The first word in the biological name represents genus and species is represented by the second word
So, the correct answer is ‘genus’

Note:
-The person or scientist who gave the scientific name for an organism, his or her name appears after the scientific epithet i.e, at the end of the biological name, and is written in abbreviated form.
-Carolus Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature.