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Monera
                    5 Kingdom Classification  Plantae

                              Protista


                               Fungi






                             Animalia


               Hierarchy of Classification

               Carolus Linnaeus arranged the organisms into different taxonomic groups at different
               levels. The groups from top to bottom are:

                        1.  Kingdom
                        2.  Phylum

                        3.  Class

                        4.  Order
                        5.  Family

                        6.  Genus

                        7.  Species



























               Species- A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of
               exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic
               unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.
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