Question Video: Identifying the Taxonomic Levels Present in a Binomial Name Biology • First Year of Secondary School

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The binomial naming system provides each organism with two names. For example, the binomial name for humans is Homo sapiens. What taxonomic rank is represented by sapiens?

The levels in the taxonomic hierarchy are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The binomial naming system combines the two most specific taxonomic ranks to describe a single species, that is, genus and species.

In this question, we are given the example of the binomial name Homo sapiens. In this case, Homo would be the genus, and sapiens would be the species. Therefore, the correct answer to this question is species. Sapiens represents the species in the binomial name Homo sapiens.