How many of the following statement(s) are correct? (i) Genus comprises a group of related species which has more characters in common in comparison to species. (ii) 'pardus' and 'leo' are two different species but both belong to the genus Felis. (iii) Each genus may have one or more than one specific epithets representing different organisms. (iv) A species is a group of individuals with highest fundamental similarities and maximum number of organisms.

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How many of the following statement(s) are correct? (i) Genus comprises a group of related species which has more characters in common in comparison to species. (ii) 'pardus' and 'leo' are two different species but both belong to the genus Felis. (iii) Each genus may have one or more than one specific epithets representing different organisms. (iv) A species is a group of individuals with highest fundamental similarities and maximum number of organisms. (A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1

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Genus comprises a group of related species which has more characters in common in comparison to species of other genera. pardus and leo are two different species but both belong to the genus Panthera. Each genus may have one or more than one specific epithets representing different organisms, but having morphological similarities. A group of individual organisms with fundamental similarities is species but it has least number of organisms in any given category.