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Practice M.Sc Microbiology The Living World — Diversity, Nomenclature, Taxonomic Categories & Hierarchy in the app →What is the SCIENTIFIC NAME of mango?Who is credited with introducing the system of BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE used by biologists worldwide?Approximately how many species of organisms are currently known and described on Earth?The hierarchy of taxonomic categories in ASCENDING order is:Three different genera Solanum, Petunia and Datura are placed together in which family?Which classes are commonly grouped under the phylum CHORDATA?Order PRIMATA (monkeys, gorillas, gibbons) belongs to which class?In the scientific name Mangifera indica Linn., what does 'Linn.' indicate?In which TWO families are CATS (Panthera, Felis) and DOGS placed respectively?Three genera Panthera (tiger, lion, leopard) and Felis (cats) are in family Felidae. Carnivora (animal order) Identify the correctly ordered taxonomic categorisation for Man (Homo sapiens):As we go HIGHER in the taxonomic hierarchy (species → kingdom):Identify the field of biology defined as 'the science of identification, nomenclature and classification' and For ANIMALS, the nomenclature rules are governed by:For the housefly (Musca domestica), the family, order, class and phylum (in that order) are: