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Which term is used for categories such as dogs, mammals, wheat and plants?
AEpithets
BTaxa
CGenera
DBinomials
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Taxa
Each convenient category used to study organisms, at any level of the hierarchy, is a taxon, plural taxa.
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