NEET-UG Biology · Class 11
Taxonomic categories and the hierarchy — NEET & JEE Questions
Taxonomic categories and the hierarchy is a topic in The Living World, a Class 11 Biology chapter of the NEET-UG syllabus. TestBudy holds 30 published NEET-UG questions on Taxonomic categories and the hierarchy, each with the marking scheme of the real paper.
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Taxonomic categories and the hierarchy MCQs with solutions
10 of the 30 published questions on this topic, exactly as they appear in a test. Answers and worked solutions come with your result rather than on this page.
What is the basic unit of classification in the taxonomic hierarchy?
- A. Species
- B. Genus
- C. Family
- D. Order
What is the lowest major taxonomic category in the standard hierarchy?
- A. Order
- B. Family
- C. Genus
- D. Species
Which taxonomic rank comes immediately above species?
- A. Genus
- B. Family
- C. Order
- D. Class
Which rank comes immediately above genus?
- A. Class
- B. Species
- C. Order
- D. Family
Which taxonomic rank is immediately above family?
- A. Genus
- B. Phylum
- C. Class
- D. Order
Which rank is immediately below phylum in animals?
- A. Kingdom
- B. Order
- C. Family
- D. Class
Arrange these taxonomic categories from the most inclusive to the least inclusive. (set mt9s9khf)
- A. Class, Order, Family, Genus
- B. Order, Class, Genus, Family
- C. Family, Order, Class, Genus
- D. Genus, Family, Order, Class
Arrange these taxonomic categories from the most inclusive to the least inclusive. (set mt9sit8r)
- A. Class, Order, Family, Genus
- B. Order, Class, Genus, Family
- C. Family, Order, Class, Genus
- D. Genus, Family, Order, Class
Two organisms are placed in the same genus. Which relationship must also be true?
- A. They are the same species
- B. They belong to the same family
- C. They belong to different orders
- D. They have identical characteristics
As one moves from species toward kingdom, what generally happens to the number of organisms included in a category?
- A. It increases
- B. It decreases
- C. It remains constant
- D. It becomes zero at family
Common mistakes in Taxonomic categories and the hierarchy
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- Assuming both quantities move together
- Treating every shared taxonomic rank as evidence of the same degree of similarity.
- Using taxon and taxonomic category interchangeably without distinguishing a group from its rank.
- Confuses broader categories with greater similarity.
- Assumes members of the same genus must be the same species.
- Assumes different families must also mean different orders.
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