Question

What is the taxonomic classification for a house cat?

Answer 1

Hint: Linnaeus had done his binomial nomenclature of plants and animal species based on the classification already done by Bauhin. This type of classification system helps in giving the scientific name to the individual that includes the genus and the species of plants and animals.

Complete answer
The genus name of the domestic cat is known as Felis, which belongs to the Felidae family. The members of the genus Felis have an average length of about 46cm and have some larger animals that include tiger, lion, etc and belong to the genus Panthera. The taxonomic classification for a house cat are as follows:
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata
Subphylum - Vertebrata
Class - Mammalia
Order - Carnivora
Family - Felidae
Genus - Felis
Species - catus
The characteristic features of the family Felidae are similar in almost all their members. The features include sharp teeth and claws, a flexible body with quick reflexes, well-developed sense of smell and vision.
Linnaeus was the first to introduce the concept of species. It was the word that was taken from the Greek word taken from the bible. Around 8-8.7 million species are known to date. However, out of these only 18-$20\mathrm{\%}$ of the species were described till now.
On the basis of common characteristic features, all the living organisms are classified into different hierarchical levels. As the number of taxonomic levels lowers the number of common characteristics becomes higher while in the case of the higher taxonomic levels the common characteristics will decrease.

Note:
Panthera tigris is the scientific name of the tiger and Panthera pardus is the scientific name of the leopard. They both are the members of the same family and genus. The cats also belong to the family of lions and tigers called Felidae. This helps us to study their phylogenetic relationship.