NEET 2026 (cancelled) · Question 126 · Class 11

The Living World

126. Which one of the following statements is not true about the universal rules of binomial nomenclature ?

  1. (A)The first word in the biological name represents the specific epithet, while the second component denotes the genus.
  2. (B)The specific epithet in the biological name starts with a small letter.
  3. (C)Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined or printed in italics.
  4. (D)Biological names are generally in Latin.

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Verbatim line

The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the specific epithet.

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The Living World
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1.1 DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD
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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that the first word represents the genus and the second denotes the specific epithet, which directly contradicts option A and confirms it as the false statement.

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