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NEET
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Botany
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The Living World

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Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct...

Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option.
Assertion: The correct arrangement of taxonomic categories in ascending order is, species-genus-family-order-class-phylum-kingdom.
Reason: Kingdom has highest number of similarities as compared to all other taxonomic categories.

Options

  1. ABoth Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion
  2. BBoth Assertion and Reason are true but the Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
  3. CAssertion is true but the Reason is false
  4. DBoth Assertion and Reason are false

Correct answer

C. Assertion is true but the Reason is false

Step-by-step solution

Here, the assertion is true but Kingdom is the largest taxonomic category and it has the highest number of dissimilarities.
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