Question

The closest category of the family is

Answer 1

Hint: Family (plural: familiae) is one of the eight main hierarchical taxonomic ranks as per the Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified among six other taxonomic ranks to classify an organism. A family can be divided into subfamilies. Subfamilies are the intermediate ranks between the taxonomic ranks of family and genus.

Complete answer: The taxonomic hierarchy includes the following ranks:
Kingdom-Phylum- Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species.
In the biological classification, the taxonomic ranks are the comparative level of a group of organisms or a taxon in a taxonomic hierarchy. Some examples of these taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain, etc. The organisms are grouped into each taxon (plural: taxa) and these assigned groups are given a taxonomic rank. The groups of any given rank are gathered to form a supergroup of a higher rank, therefore forming a taxonomic hierarchy. The major ranks in the modern system are domain, kingdom, phylum (division is used in botany and phylum is used in zoology), class, order, family, genus, and species. Family is the third taxonomic rank from the bottom and is clubbed between genus and order. So, among the options, the order is the closest category of the family.
So, the correct answer is option C.
Additional Information:
The species name is known as binomial because it is a two-term name. For instance, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens. In this name, Homo is the name of the genus and is capitalized; sapiens specifies the name of the species and is not capitalized.

Note: The names at the rank of family and below are based on the name of a genus in botany and mycology. It is sometimes called the type genus of that taxon with a standard ending. E.g., the rose family, Rosaceae, is named after the genus Rosa with the standard ending "-aceae" for the family.