What is meant by Hierachy ?
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Taxonomic hierarchy means arrangement of taxonomical categories in hierarchical or stepwise manner with kingdom occupying the top most position while species occupying the bottom most position. In other words, Hierarchical classification is a classification system where entities are arranged based on some hierarchical structure.
The hierarchy of biological classification consists of major taxonomic ranks. They are:
* Kingdom
* Phylum
* Class
* Order
* Family
* Genus
* Species
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